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Blindage

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Blindage
    (Mil) A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) blindage
    Milit., a blind; a screen made of timber and earth, used to protect men in a trench or covered way; also, a mantelet.
  2. (n) blindage
    A hood so arranged that it can be made to cover the eyes of a horse if he essays to run away.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (ns) Blindage
    (mil.) a temporary wooden screen faced with earth as a protection against splinters of shell and the like
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. F. blindage,

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. blind; Ice. blindr.