defensive limes

English translation: fortified border defense system; fortified walls [ramparts]

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English term or phrase:	defensive limes
Selected answer:	fortified border defense system; fortified walls [ramparts]
Entered by:	Berni Armstrong

09:54 May 28, 2002

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English term or phrase: defensive limes

Thanks to the reinforcement of the defensive
limes from ca. 1725 the Tartars were no longer free to range unimpeded over ...

Vladimir Pochinov KudoZ activity Questions: 86 (none open) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 4190 Russian Federation
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limes is actually Latin

Explanation:
and means border, fortified wall, fortified ramparts (like the Adrian Wall in Britain, if memory does not betray me)

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Vladimir, I suggest that you digit the following 3-word string on Google (or any other search engine): limes stone wall. You\'ll find plenty of material there, but I can anticipate what I suspected, i.e. that the Roman limes was mainly made of stone. Nevertheless, the writer of your text may well have used this term improperly (the Romans never went as far as Russia...) and actually meant a wooden stockade.

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Francesco D'Alessandro
Spain
Local time: 18:31

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limes is actually Latin

Francesco D'Alessandro

(Roman) fortified border defense system

MarianneH

stockade

Hanna Burdon

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limes is actually Latin

Francesco D'Alessandro
Spain
Local time: 18:31
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1 hr confidence:

stockade

Explanation:
Perhaps you might use the word "stockade"? It is a sort of defensive barrier made of wood and Webster's actually mentions that the posts were sharpened.

STOCKADE, n. [See Stoccade.]
1. In fortification, a sharpened post or stake set in the earth.
2. A line of posts or stakes set in the earth as a fence or barrier.
http://65.66.134.201/cgi-bin/webster/webster.exe?search_for_...

stockade
a strong wooden fence built around an area to defend it against attack
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=stockade*1 0

Reference: http://65.66.134.201/cgi-bin/webster/webster.exe?search_for_...

Hanna Burdon
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:31
Native speaker of: Polish
PRO pts in pair: 12

4 hrs confidence:

(Roman) fortified border defense system

Explanation:
I would say both stone and wood. Both palisades and Hadrian's wall are mentioned.

http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/kansas/aarhms/bishko.html
"From the frontier standpoints the Middle Ages begin with the collapse of the Roman fortified border defense system, the limes;...."

From: http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/history/HIEU103FX.html
Most noteworthy is the so called "Limes Policy, associated with the Flavians, Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius." Wherever natural frontiers did not exist, the Romans created an artifical one by building palisades and walls. The famous examples include a barrier from the Rhine to the Danube across the Agri Decumates, a wall to cut short the delta of the Danube, and of course Hadrian's and the Antonine walls in Britain.

Also:

http://onlinedictionary.datasegment.com/word/lime has this quote, somewhat on the side: "2. To entangle; to insnare. We had limed ourselves With open eyes, and we must take the chance. --Tennyson."

In Macbeth:
"LADY MACDUFF Poor bird! thou'ldst never fear the net nor lime,
The pitfall nor the gin."

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And a search for ROMAN LIMES got me this fantastic page!

http://home.t-online.de/home/Bernd.Hummel/limeng.htm

Reference: http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/kansas/aarhms/bishko.html

MarianneH
PRO pts in pair: 4

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