Worthless Word for the Day

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the worthless word for the day is: caponier

[a. F. caponnière, ad. Sp. caponera in same sense]
/kae peh NIE(r)/?
a covered passage across a moat or ditch

"a covered passage across the ditch of a fortified
place, for the purpose either of sheltering
communication with outworks or of affording a
flanking fire to the ditch in which it stands"
- Stocqueler Mil. Dict. (1853)

"Its buildings are vast, with towers and pinnacles,
tunnels and embayments, wharves and anchor stands and
a chapel and a ravelin tower and a clutch of caponiers,
all hewn and blasted from the pink-and-white limestone,
and sewn together with plates of rusting iron."
- Simon Winchester, Outposts