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redoubt::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | fastness, stronghold |
redoubt::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | fortification, munition |
Examples of redoubt
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When these objectives were won both brigades were to attack the central redoubt.
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In 2009 he had to abandon another home in the flight to the Tigers'final redoubt.
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Redoubt is WSW of Anchorage, Alaska but is otherwise, I think, pretty isolated.
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Even California, that great Democratic redoubt, has just been Schwarzeneggered.
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It's the last redoubt of the Tikriti clan in Saddam Hussein's ancestral homeland.
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The city is a last redoubt of al-Qaeda and a bastion of nationalist Baathists.
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Redoubt volcano quiets after 2 morning blasts The Komodo Dragons ate some guy.
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On 11 June a British party stormed a detached redoubt on the Cavannos heights.
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Surt was Colonel Qaddafi's hometown and final redoubt in the eight-month conflict.
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- (military) a temporary or supplementary fortification; typically square or polygonal without flanking defenses
- An entrenched stronghold or refuge
- A redoubt is a fort or fort system usually consisting of an enclosed defensive emplacement outside a larger fort, usually relying on earthworks, though others are constructed of stone or brick. ...
- A small, temporary, military fortification; A reinforced refuge; a fort; A place of safety or refuge; To dread
- (REDOUBTS) This term is used to describe any military Instillation or military storage depot.
- Small self-contained fieldwork, a refuge for soldiers outside the main defenses.
- Is the French redoute, corrupted perhaps by a supposed alliance of the word with doubt, with which it has not the least connection.
- 1) A small separate defensive work (blockhouse or earthen works); 2) Detached outworks as part of a larger defensive plan, usually square without defensive flanks. Could also be polygonal or hexegonal shapes.
- Isolated military construction and autonomous
