Băn-quette', n.

(ban-kĕt'), n. [Fr. banquette, a little seat, a long seat covered with any stuff, a raised way, little bank, from banc, bench, seat. See BANK.] (Fort.) A little raised way or foot-bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy in the ditch or in front of it. [See Illust. of Abattis.]