cunette

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /kjuːˈnɛt/    美 /kjuːˈnɛt/|/kuː-/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A trench dug in a moat to allow for drainage, or as an extra obstacle for attackers.
    — Ford's Ravelin.—Completed in its ditch, ſluices, cunette, aqueducts, ſcarp, and counterſcarp walls; […]

词形变化

cunettes plural

词源

From French cunette (possibly also lacunette), from Italian cunetta (“cunette”), said to be from lacunetta, diminutive of lacuna (“ditch; lagoon; gap”), from Latin lacūna (“hole, pit; cavity, cleft, hollow, opening; gap, void”), from lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).
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