Meanings of form a breastwork in English

We threw the buffalo hams on the ground and piled them about the wheels so as to form a breastwork.

As usual, we placed the sleighs in a circle, so as to form a breastwork, with the cattle inside it.

Inman's command, was ordered to form a breastwork of old logs and brush, and make as brave a defence as circumstances permitted.

We threw the buffalo hams upon the ground, and piled them around the wheels in such a shape as to form a breastwork.

Some cut down bushes, some filled sandbags to form a breastwork for guns and ammunition, and others erected the bushy walls of their woodland fortification.

The Americans improved the time thus given them by forming a breastwork in front of an old ditch.

The men dug a big rifle pit in the centre of the corral, forming a breastwork out of the displaced sand.