Meaning of batardeau | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A cofferdam.
2. 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.

Examples

“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.”

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