breast n Comb ~ work: also, a wharflike raised area around a railway station.
   [1895] 1985 GOSSE 14 The old platform that surrounded the [railway station] has been taken away and a breastwork, filled with clay substituted. 1984 KELLAND 12 I was playing around near our back door [in sight of] a breastwork of stout logs placed tightly together and driven ends down deep into the beach.

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