barbette
(within a fortification) a platform or mound of earth from which guns may be fired over the parapet instead of through embrasures.
Navy. an armored cylinder for protecting the lower part of a turret on a warship.
Origin of barbette
1Other definitions for Barbette (2 of 2)
a female given name, form of Barbara.
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How to use barbette in a sentence
But where now is the one-masted Hercules, which but a moment since went trembling at the bale of her own bellowing barbettes?
The Lord of the Sea | M. P. ShielThe vessel was to carry four large barbettes and a huge umbrella-like fighting-top.
The armored barbettes and central citadels of the two Chinese battleships were especially the mark of the Japanese fire.
Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century | Charles MorrisRound the barbettes of the ships sacks of coal were stacked as an emergency method of strengthening these defences.
Famous Sea Fights | John Richard HaleThe guns are protected by breastworks, turrets or barbettes, the other parts of the ship being unprotected.
British Dictionary definitions for barbette
/ (bɑːˈbɛt) /
(formerly) an earthen platform inside a parapet, from which heavy guns could fire over the top
an armoured cylinder below a turret on a warship that protects the revolving structure and foundation of the turret
Origin of barbette
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