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Roman Battle Formation With Shields Linked As One Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is TESTUDO which was last seen in the The Guardian Speedy crossword.
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noun

• type genus of the Testudinidae

• a movable protective covering that provided protection from above; used by Roman troops when approaching the walls of a besieged fortification

38%7 A formation of ancient Greek warriors with interlocking shields; or, by extension, a dense body of soldiers; a crowd; a bone of a finger or toe; or, a bundle of stamens
noun

• any of the bones of the fingers or toes

• any closely ranked crowd of people

• a body of troops in close array

34%8Battle formation where soldiers interlock their shields to form a near-impenetrable barrier
noun

• A shelter formed by a body of troops by holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.

• A shelter of similar shape for miners, etc.

• A kind of lyre; so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a tortoise.

• An encysted tumour.

• The fornix.

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