Definition of Schanse

1. a protective stone wall [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Schanse

scernes
scerning
scerns
scetch
sch-23390
schH
schachnerite
schadenfreude
schadenfreuder
schadenfreuders
schadenfreudes
schafarzikite
schairerite
schallerite
schanse (current term)
schanses
schantze
schantzes
schanze
schanzes
schapbachite
schappe
schapped
schappes
schapska
schapskas
scharlach red
schatchen
schatchens

Literary usage of Schanse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Among Boers and Basutos: The Story of Our Life on the Frontier by Fanny A. Barkly (1894)
"The rebels charged us repeatedly and got within fifty yards of the schanse, some of them. There are three dead horses of theirs in Hawkins's garden, ..."

2. Military Topography for the Mobile Forces: Including Map Reading, Surveying by Clarence Osborne Sherrill (1910)
"Denkmal—Memorial (statue or anything else). Steinbruch, Stbr.—Quarry. Grube—Pit, hole. Felsen—Rock. Alte schanse—Old (abandoned) trench (rifle pit). ..."

3. A Narrative of the Boer War: Its Causes and Results by Thomas Fortescue Carter (1896)
"The cannon were not brought within range, but fired upon our men from the camp when they stormed the last schanse. I have now so much to do that I cannot ..."

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