资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Epaule \E*paule"\, n. [F. ['e]paule shoulder, shoulder of a
   bastion. See {Epaulet}, and cf. {Spall} the shoulder.]
   (Fort.)
   The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and
   flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the
   shoulder.