'Ecoute \['E]`coute"\, n. [F., a listening place.]

(Mil.) One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy's miners. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

'Ecoute \['E]`coute"\, n. [F., a listening place.]

(Mil.) One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy's miners.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)