Definition of "crownwork" []

• A type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from which longer flank walls run back towards the main fortress. (noun)

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• "And from the crownwork hung carved vines of purple grapes, clusters -as tall as a man."