defensive walls
Castle's stone barriers
Defensive walls are fortified barriers built to protect a city, fortress, or territory from attack.
They represent one of humanity's oldest military technologies, from ancient city walls to the Great Wall of China.
The term also applies figuratively to psychological barriers: She put up defensive walls after the divorce.
In sports, a defensive wall is a line of players blocking a free kick.
- bastionsFortified defensive positions
- stone wallsRefuses to cooperate
- battlementsNotched defensive wall top
- rampartsProtective fortress walls
- fortificationsDefensive barriers against attack
parapets · fortress · castle keep · citadel · concentric rings · Maginot Line · portcullis · walled city · defensive perimeter · crenellations · curtain walls · arrow slits · bulwarks · murder holes · Iron Curtain · stronghold · barbican · castle
- castleskeep, moat, drawbridge, dungeon, turret
- defensedefense, defending, protecting, protection, security
- medieval warfareknights, siege warfare, castle, castle siege, siege
- bordersborder, boundary, border crossing, national borders, boundary line
- castle partsmoat, keep, drawbridge, battlement, tower
- fortificationsfort, fortress, fortresses, citadel, citadels
defensive wallssiege weapons
Machines for attacking fortifications
battering rams · siege towers · catapults · trebuchets · siege engines
defensive wallsbreaches
Breaks or violations
open borders · passageways · open fields · open terrain · thoroughfares