bartizan
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of bartizan
1325–75; Middle English alteration of bertisene, misspelling of bretising, variant of bratticing. See brattice, -ing 1
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We of the peaceful professions—videlicet, my daughter Waller and I—did descend from the bartizan, and betook ourselves to the great withdrawing room, to wait for the result of the approach.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various
High aloft hung the wooden bartizan or watch-tower, clinging to the face of the outer wall and looming black against the pale sky above.
From Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
The crow’s-nest was built like a bartizan on the precipitous front of the position.
From A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa by Robert Louis Stevenson
He took it in his hand, and stepping out on the bartizan, crept with careful steps round to the watch-tower.
From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by George MacDonald
"There is a lodging, certainly," said Otto to the sentinel, who pointed towards the castle with his bartizan; "but tell me, good fellow, what are we to do for a supper?"
From Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray
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