"batardeau" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1833, The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine",
          "text": "An experiment was tried during the day upon the dykes of the citadel, which, as before stated, are fed by means of a sluice opposite the Scheldt, and separated from those of the city by a batardeau.",
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        "A cofferdam."
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        "A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall."
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          "wall",
          "wall"
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          "ditch",
          "ditch"
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        [
          "fortification",
          "fortification"
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        [
          "sluice",
          "sluice"
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          "gate",
          "gate"
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        "(military) A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall."
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        "A cofferdam."
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        "(military) A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall."
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