📚 Rampart, noun.
🔉 /ˈrampɑːt/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition (usually ramparts): A defensive wall of a castle or walled city, having a broad top with a walkway and typically a stone parapet.
❗️ Examples:
1. A castle with ramparts and a moat.
2. Take the track to the left of the castle ramparts, rounding small sewage works on its left.
3. This narrow headland was defended as a cliff castle with three stone ramparts across its neck.
4. It nestles just off the town square of Durrow, surrounded by the old rampart of the castle walls.
5. In a siege, the ramparts of the castle were often bombarded by large projectiles from catapults.
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