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DEMIGORGE
Dem"i*gorge`, n. Etym: [Cf. F. demi-gorge.] (Fort.)
Definition: Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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