vauntmure

English

Alternative forms

• vaimure, vamure

Etymology

From French avant-mur. See vanguard and mure.

Noun

vauntmure (plural vauntmures)

1. A false wall raised in front of the main wall as a fortification.
   • 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:

     another Engine , named the Warwolf , pierced with one stone , and cut as even as a thread two vauntmures, as he did before at the siege of Brehin

References

• “vauntmure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.