abattis

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abattis (plural abattis or abattises)

  1. Alternative spelling of abatis
    • 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 34, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 469:
      He withdrew Torfrida and his men into the heart of the forest,—no hint of the place is given by the chronicler,—cut down trees, formed an abattis of trunks and branches, and awaited the enemy.

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French abatëiz. By surface analysis, abattre (to cut down) +‎ -is.

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abattis m (plural abattis)

  1. rubble
  2. (Canada) an area that has been cleared of trees, but not yet of their stumps
  3. (cooking, plural only) giblets
  4. (military) abatis
  5. (dated, slang, plural only) limbs

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abattis

  1. first/second-person singular past historic of abattre

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