battleworks
English
Etymology
battle + works
Noun
battleworks pl (plural only)
- Protective infrastructure erected to protect weapons and soldiers during battle.
- 1961, William Sansom, The last hours of Sandra Lee, page 195:
- Hearst had his little fingers on Mrs Tovey's ample waist, on what felt through the silk like an ironclad's battleworks.
- 1996, David Anthony Downes, Hopkins' achieved self, page 156:
- The horizon of heaven is felt as a metal battleworks deflecting the arrows of prayer that are sent to soar as pleas for some castle-master's help for forgiveness: My prayer must meet a brazen heaven And fail and scatter all away.
- 2014, Robert Reed, The Memory of Sky, →ISBN:
- "I know what's inside the battleworks," she said. "The biggest, harshest weapons in existence, I know. ..."
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