glacis

  1. Noun.  A gentle incline, especially one in front of a fortification.
  2. Noun.  The angled armour plate on the front of a tank; glacis plate.
  3. Noun.  (context, postal service) A device for sorting mail which slides parcels across a sloped surface.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.