A redoubt is a fort or fort system usually consisting of an enclosed defensive emplacement outside a larger fort, usually relying on earthworks, though others are constructed of stone or brick.
Look up innuendo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An innuendo is an hint, insinuation or intimation about a person or thing, especially of a denigrating or a derogatory nature. It can also be a remark or question, typically disparaging (also called insinuation), that works obliquely by allusion.
contort. to twist or wrench out of its usual form into one that is grotesque; distort violently: a face contorted with pain. ; from Classical Latin contortus, past participle of contorquere, to whirl, twist; from com- , together + torquere, to twist: see tort.Origin of contort.hen you taste something very sour and you twist your face up in an odd expression to show your displeasure, this is an example of a time when you contort your face.