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Definition of Hornworks
1. hornwork [n] - See also: hornwork
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hornworks
Literary usage of Hornworks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The War for the Rhine Frontier, 1870: Its Political and Military History by Wilhelm Rüstow, John Layland Needham (1872)
"The principal outworks are the hornworks Nos. 40 to 42 before the front 8 and 9,
and Nos. ... In the hornworks Nos. 40 to 42 and 47 to 49, as well as in No. ..."
2. The Principles of Land Defense and Their Application to the Conditions of To-day by Henry Fleetwood Thuillier (1902)
"The town was surrounded by a bastioned enceinte of considerable strength, augmented
in many places by hornworks and advanced lunettes. ..."
3. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1904)
"tecture embraces fortification and fieldworks, which, with their bastions,
curtains, hornworks, redoubts, etc., are based on a technical combination of ..."
4. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1894)
"... bastions, curtains, and hornworks make but a poor, contemptible, fiddle-faddle
piece of work of it here upon paper, compared to what your Honour and I ..."
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