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batardeau

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From French batardeau.

noun batardeaus

A cofferdam. An experiment was tried during the day upon the dykes of the citadel, which, as before stated, are fed by means of a sluice opposite the Scheldt, and separated from those of the city by a batardeau.
A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall.

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@misc{batardeau_2026,
  title = {batardeau},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/batardeau},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}