vallatory

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English

Adjective

vallatory (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to a vallation; used for a vallation.
    • c. 1683, Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts:
      And with such differences of reeds, vallatory, sagittary, scriptory, and others, they might be furnished in Judæa.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for vallatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)