breastwork

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fortification consisting of a breast-high bulwark; a parapet.
    — Before long we had flung enough sand-bags into place to make a low breastwork behind which the few men who were on this side of the position could lie down and fire.
  2. A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle.
    — The Independencia is a two-turreted, breastwork ship of 9,000 tons displacement. […] The central breastwork is 130 feet in length at the top of the belt, and extends to the upper deck, 11 feet above the water-line. This breastwork incloses the boiler and engine hatches, the scuttles to magazines and shell-rooms, the principal openings for ventilation, and the two turrets.
  3. A parapet.
    — A swarthy boy opened a book and propped it nimbly under the breastwork of his satchel. He recited jerks of verse with odd glances at the text: […]
  4. Breast augmentation. slang

词形变化

breastworks plural breast-work alternative

词源

From breast + work.
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