- An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for
military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an
upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have
its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling
the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much
used in America and Germany. - A house of squared logs.
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