in fortification, faggots of small wood, of about a foot diameter, and six feet long, bound in the middle, and at both ends. They are used in raising batteries, making chandeliers, in filling up the moat to facilitate the passage to the wall, in binding the ramparts where the earth is bad, and in making parapets of trenches to screen the men. Some of them are dipped in melted pitch or tar; and, being set on fire, serve to burn the enemy's lodgments or other works.

In the corrupt Latin they use *fascina*, *fascinia*, and *fascinata*, &c., to signify the pales, fascines, &c., used to inclose the ancient castles, &c.