Bastionet

A small bastion in masonry, either casemated or open and placed at the salient of a work. When casemated, the masonry should be covered by the glacis. Bastion-faee Cut — A cut designed to confine the enemy to the salient part of the bastion, preventing him from extending his works along the bastion terreplein, to turn the cavalier by its gorge. ition Front. — A front of fortifications consisting of two semi bastions and a curtain. … formidable war-club used in the early Norman battles and which was the precursor of the iron mace of the Middle Ages. — A kind of pack-saddle; and hence a bat-borse was a baggage-horse bearing a bat or pack, and a bat-man was a servant in charge of the horse and bat.