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In Fortification, a lattice or portcullis armed with spikes, to block up a gateway, or impede the march of an enemy. HERTHA (sometimes written Aertha, Aortha, ana Eorthe). In German Mythology, the name generally a igned in modern times to the. chief divinity of the ancient German and Scand in avian nations. She was worshipped under a variety of names, of which the chief were exactly analogous to those of Terra, Rhea, Cybele, and Ops, among the Greeks and Romans. Long before the Christian era the knowledge of Hertha appeared to have been extended over a great portion of northern 554 [s. 567]