rampart
- n an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
they stormed the ramparts of the city
- And then he would leap: from roofs or high windows; from a rock onto a distant tree; from a rampart onto a sheer castle wall 15 ft.
- Across a rampart of rock and ice stretching the length of the 75-km Siachen Glacier, an Indian soldier, Amarjeet Singh, is preparing to take up his battle position against the .
- Charles de Gaulle once described the French armed forces as "the rampart of order.