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Breastwork. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Breastwork 1.  Fortif. A fieldwork (usually rough and temporary) thrown up a few feet in height for defence against an enemy; a parapet.

1 1642.  Relat. Action bef. Cyrencester, 3. Gardens … divided by many low dry stone walls, as good as Breast workes.

2 1645.  R. Symonds, Diary Civ. War (1859), 231–2. At Worcester Prince Maurice has made without the ditch … a low breast work, and a stockado without.

3 1693.  Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), III. 152. The English made a breastwork of the dead, to cover them in the time of action.

4 1809.  W. Irving, Knickerb. (1861), 98. The mud breastworks had long been levelled with the earth.

5 1839.  Thirlwall, Greece, II. 346. Closing their wicker shields, and fixing them in the ground, so as to form a kind of breastwork before them.

6 1861.  Smiles, Engineers, II. 236. The Hythe Military Canal … protected by a breastwork on the land side.

7   b.  transf. and fig.

8 1828.  Carlyle, Misc. (1857), I. 230. Behind the outmost breastwork of gentility.

9 1821.  De Quincey, Confess., Wks. I. 103. This watery breastwork, a perpendicular wall of water carrying itself as true as if controlled by a mason’s plumb-line.

10   2.  In various technical uses: a. Naut. ‘A sort of balustrade of rails, mouldings, or stanchions which terminates the quarter-deck and poop at the fore ends’ (Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk.); see also quot. 1870. b. Arch. The parapet of a building. c. = BREASTING 2.

11 1769.  Falconer, Dict. Marine (1789), Breastwork … frequently decorated with sculpture.

12 c. 1850.  Rudim. Navig. (Weale), 101. The breast-work … serves to make a separation from the main-deck.

13 1870.  Daily News, 27 Sept., 2/2. Having the space occupied by the turrets, funnel, hatchways, &c., raised seven or eight feet above the low deck. The armoured sides of this superstructure Mr. Reed calls the ‘breastwork.’

14 1875.  Ure, Dict. Arts, II. 849. A good example of the form of iron buckets employed in the breast wheel … is shown in fig. 1178: a. shrouding…. e. breastwork.

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