单词 | skitegate |
释义 | † skitegate Obs. rare. Also skyt-. [ad. Du. schiet-gat, f. schieten to shoot + gat hole.] An opening or loop-hole in a wall for a cannon or other piece of artillery.
1677Earl of Orrery Treat. Art War 118 Great Cannon Gabions well fill'd with Earth, or Skite Gates thorow the Flanks and Faces of the said Works. 1685Cotton tr. Montaigne (1877) I. 93 Captain Julius..being so astonish'd with fear as to throw himself and his fellows out at a skyt-gate [Fr. une canonniere], was immediately cut to pieces by the enemy. |

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