@PugJesus to For sharing illustrations of [email protected]English • edit-24 months ago17th century AD illustration of the layered defenses of a fortressimagemessage-square7arrow-up125arrow-down10
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minus-square@PugJesusOPlinkEnglish4•4 months agoDefensive ditch/moat. It’s Dutch, I think, so I wiktionaried graft and got (chiefly Holland) Obsolete form of gracht (“canal”).
minus-square@glimselink2•4 months agoAh, interesting! Thanks, I tried searching for it verbatim and got nothing
minus-square@Hagdoslink2•4 months agoNative Dutch guy here: Gracht is the Dutch word for moat indeed. The picture is Dutch, though a 17th century version of it obviously. If you’re interested I can translate the rest later for you.
Defensive ditch/moat. It’s Dutch, I think, so I wiktionaried graft and got
Ah, interesting! Thanks, I tried searching for it verbatim and got nothing
Native Dutch guy here: Gracht is the Dutch word for moat indeed. The picture is Dutch, though a 17th century version of it obviously.
If you’re interested I can translate the rest later for you.