BREASTWORK
\bɹˈɛstwɜːk], \bɹˈɛstwɜːk], \b_ɹ_ˈɛ_s_t_w_ɜː_k]\
Definitions of BREASTWORK
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. A defensive earth-work breast-high;—a railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle;—a protection on a balcony, or parapet on a bridge.
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