"countermure" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:",
          "text": "if they could aduance a countermure as high as their wals , and ſo to attaine to the conqueſt thereof",
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        "A wall raised behind another, to supply its place when that is breached or destroyed."
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    {
      "form": "countermured",
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      "form": "countermured",
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          "text": "15??, Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy\nThey are plac'd in those empyreal heights,\nWhere, counter-mur'd with walls of diamond,\nI find the place impregnable."
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        "To fortify with a wall behind another wall."
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        "(transitive) To fortify with a wall behind another wall."
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        "(transitive) To fortify with a wall behind another wall."
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