CAPONIERE, or CAPONIERE, in Fortification, a covered
lodging sunk four or five feet into the ground, encom-
passed with a little parapet about two feet high, serving
to support several planks covered with earth. The ca-
poniere is large enough to contain fifteen or twenty sol-
diers, and is usually placed in the glacis on the extremi-
ty of the counterscarp, and in dry moats; having little
embrasures for the soldiers to fire through.