An earthwork; a mound; a raised work.
Lat. In the civil law. A dam, bank or mound. Cod. 9, 3S; Townsh. PI. 4S.
A prominence, as a. nasi, a ridge on the outer wall of the middle meatus of the nose.
[L.] A mound erected before the walls of a besieged city to sustain the battering engines.
[L.] In a Roman camp, the earth dug out from the fossa, or trench, and placed on the bank ; on its outer edge was the vallum, or stockade.