Definition for RE-DOUT'

RE-DOUT', n. [It. ridotto, a shelter, a retreat; Sp. reducto; Port. reduto, reducto or redutto; Fr. redoute, reduit; L. reductus, reduco, to bring back; literally, a retreat. The usual orthography, redoubt, is egregiously erroneous.]

In fortification, an outwork; a small square fort without any defense, except in front; used in trenches, lines of circumvallation, contravallation and approach, to defend passages, &c. Encyc.

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