(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:03:52

Ba`tar*deau" (?), n. [F.]

1.

A cofferdam.

Brande & C.

2. Mil.

A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall.

 

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