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noun
A trench dug in a moat to allow for drainage, or as an extra obstacle for attackers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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Antonyms: none provided
History
From French cunette (possibly also lacunette), from Italian cunetta (“cunette”), said to be from lacunetta, diminutive of lacuna (“ditch; lagoon; gap”), from Latin lacūna (“hole, pit; cavity, cleft, hollow, opening; gap, void”), from lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).
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