Dictionary Home » Dictionary Definitions » glacises

glacises

Variant of glacis

noun pl. glacis or glacises

a gradual slope
an embankment sloping gradually up to a fortification, so as to expose attackers to defending gunfire

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

link/cite print suggestion box

More from YD