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trous-de-loup
/ ˌtruːdəˈluː /
noun
- military any of a series of conical-shaped pits with a stake fixed in the centre, formerly used as protection against enemy cavalry
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Word History and Origins
Origin of trous-de-loup1
C18: from French, literally: wolf's holes
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Example Sentences
The Roxbury road ran through a narrow passage between two bastions of earth, surrounded with a heavy abatis and trous de loup.
From Project Gutenberg
Military pits or trous de loup are excavations in the shape of an inverted cone or pyramid, with a pointed stake in the bottom.
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Beyond the two ditches, were trous-de-loup, or wolf-traps, from twenty to seventy feet apart.
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