[ほうもん, houmon] (n) gunport; embrasure; muzzle [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Embrasure \Em*bra"sure\ (?; 135), n. [See {Embrace}.]
An embrace. [Obs.] "Our locked embrasures." --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Embrasure \Em*bra"sure\ (277), n. [F., fr. embraser, perh.
equiv. to ['e]braser to widen an opening; of unknown origin.]
1. (Arch.) A splay of a door or window.
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Apart, in the twilight gloom of a window's
embrasure,
Sat the lovers. --Longfellow.
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2. (Fort.) An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet,
through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a
crenelle. See Illust. of {Casemate}.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
embrasure
n 1: an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for
firing through [syn: {port}, {embrasure}, {porthole}]
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