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What is a breastwork?

What is a breastwork? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A fortification consisting of a breast-high bulwark; a parapet.
  2. (nautical) A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle.
  3. A parapet.
  4. (slang) Breast augmentation.
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When the Zouaves and policemen entered the house they found Garnier and Vallet crouching behind a breastwork of mattresses and furniture.
The third and outer wall was a crenelated breastwork on the other side of a fosse, of a width of 60 feet.
It threaded through the hills which surrounded the Empire's capital like a huge, natural breastwork.
A submachine-gunner delivers more accurate fire using the breastwork to steady his weapon.
The builders of that breastwork were before my eyes, and apparently just resting from their labours.
Russell sent his family to safety, then made a breastwork from a pile of shingles at his front door.

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