CROWNWORK

crown, crownwork, jacket, jacket crown, cap

(noun) (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth; “tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a crown”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

crownwork (plural crownworks)

A type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from which longer flank walls run back towards the main fortress.

(dentistry) The addition of a crown.

Source: Wiktionary


Crown"work` (-wrk`), n. (Fort.)

Definition: A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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