System heavily fortified against attacks

1560s, from Middle French bastillon, diminutive of Old French bastille "fortress, tower, fortified, building," from Old Provençal bastir "build," perhaps originally "make with [..]

The term Bastion comes from military architecture, meaning the projecting part of a fortification (from the Italian word 'bastire', build). In gardens it means a projecting point (usually oc [..]

a projecting part of a rampart or other fortification; in landscape gardening, a bastion is a projecting section of the ha-ha

A strongpoint in the curtain wall of a fortress, usually V-shaped, angled out beyond the main line of the walls of a fortress. From it, attackers along the curtain could be cross-fired upon. With a fi [..]

1) Round or polygonal tower projecting from walls.    (Seward, Desmond. Henry V: The Scourge of God, 221) 2) A small tower at the end of a curtain wall or in the middle of the outside wall.    [..]

(n) a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle(n) a group that defends a principle(n) projecting part of a rampart or other fortification

in fortification, is a work having two faces and two flanks, all the angles of which are salient, that is, pointing outwards towards the country. The line of rampart which joins together the flanks of [..]

massive fortification built into the surrounding wall of a castle.

Self-contained unit(s) of fortification projecting beyond the main curtain wall

a projecting part of a rampart or other fortification * '''1942''',Fort Camosun had swelled herself from being a little Hudson's Bay Fort, inside a stockade with bastions at the corners, into being [..]