Obs. Also 6 vauntemure, vauntmire, vantmure. [Aphetic form of AVANTMURE: see VANT-, VAUNT-.] = VAUMURE.
1562. J. Shute, trans. Cambini’s Turk. Wars, 16 b. Throughe their long … neglygence of the Greekes for want of reparation, their vauntemures were utterlye decaied in many places.
1583. Stocker, Civ. Warres Lowe C., III. 135 b. There fell downe a pane of the wall, and vauntmire of the Towne … sixe and twentie Poles longe.
1596. Danett, trans. Comines (1614), 231. Wherewith the wals, towers, and vantmures of the castell and towne were throughly battered.
1605. Camden, Rem. (1623), 206. He with another engine named the Warwolfe pierced with one stone, and cut as even as a thread, two Vauntmures.
