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Abatis vs Adatis - What's the difference?

abatis | adatis |

As nouns the difference between abatis and adatis

is that abatis is a means of defense formed by felled trees, or sometimes by bent trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy, and more recently fortified with barbed wire while adatis is a fine cotton cloth of India.

abatis

English

(wikipedia abatis)

Alternative forms

* abattis

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A means of defense formed by felled trees, or sometimes by bent trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy, and more recently fortified with barbed wire.

    • References

    English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    adatis

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic) A fine cotton cloth of India.
    • (Webster 1913)