Fortified or defended with an abattis; equipped with a barrier of felled trees with sharpened branches.
Past participle of 'abattise,' the English verb formed from the French 'abatis,' indicating an area or fortification that has been equipped with these defensive obstacles.
When military engineers 'abattised' a position, they were essentially creating nature's version of anti-tank obstacles—the wooden version of twentieth-century military defenses appeared centuries earlier.
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