| Lunette 1. (n.) A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion. 2. (n.) A half horseshoe, which wants the sponge. 3. (n.) A kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexo-concave lens for spectacles. 4. (n.) A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse. 5. (n.) Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line. 6. (n.) An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage. Thesaurus Entries advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, breastwork, bulwark, casemate, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, contravallation, counterscarp, curtain, demibastion, dike, drawbridge, earthwork, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, glacis, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, sally port, scarp, sconce, stockade, tenaille, vallation, vallum, work |