How To Use Abatis In A Sentence

Union soldiers completed digging a series of ditches that zigzagged forward and reached the abatis.
It was a combination of towers, palisades, ditches, abatis, and caltrops to slow the attacking Gauls.
MODs lay minefields, dig AT ditches, emplace demolitions, and create other obstacles, such as abatis or log cribs to block forest roads. FM 100-61 Chptr 12 Engineer Support
It was a combination of towers, palisades, ditches, abatis, and caltrops to slow the attacking Gauls, so that Roman missile engines could more effectively engage them.
I mean that the Wilderness woodsmen, without orders from Clay, had converted the entire area that would have to be traversed into a natural death trap, an abatis, a French word my grandfather did not know, nor did I when I first heard it. Mexico

High entanglements (known as abatis) may be made by felling trees toward the enemy, and similar entanglements made of brushwood are useful in emergency. Military Instructors Manual
They cleared the ground in front of the works, lacing it with abatis. Cavalryman of the Lost Cause
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They were built as a system of separate fortresses, abatis lines, and on forested terrain, tree blowdowns.
Her feet, of a kind that painters call abatis, rose above the varnished leather of the shoes in a swelling that was some inches high. Pierre Grassou
Get engineers to build Pontoon bridges and abatis, and use sharpshooters to snipe at the enemy from a safe distance. Back To Gettysburg
They were built as a system of separate fortresses, abatis lines, and on forested terrain, tree blowdowns.
Nivelles highway, and there overflowed in a large pool in front of the abatis of trees which barred the way, at a spot which is still pointed out. Les Miserables
abatis" from the fallen trees, while earthworks commanding the position were soon erected. Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive
There were still labourers out there, struggling to manoeuvre an abatis into position.