Batardeauとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

batardeau (plural batardeaus)

1. A cofferdam.
   • 1833, The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine:

     An experiment was tried during the day upon the dykes of the citadel, which, as before stated, are fed by means of a sluice opposite the Scheldt, and separated from those of the city by a batardeau.

2. (military) A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall.

参照

• “batardeau”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.