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Meaning of batardeau | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

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.

Equivalents

Deutsch Wasserbär
Français batardeau

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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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