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barbette
1[ bahr-bet ]
noun
- (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.
Barbette
2[ bahr-bet ]
noun
- a first name, form of Barbara.
barbette
/ ²úÉ‘Ëˈ²úÉ›³Ù /
noun
- (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
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of barbette1
C18: from French, diminutive of barbe a nun's barb 1, from a fancied similarity between the earthwork around a cannon and this part of a nun's habit
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Eerie images of the Kaga captured by an undersea drone show a starboard side gun, a 20 cm gun, a gun mount and a barbette, or gun emplacement.
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En barbette, In barbette, said of guns when they are elevated so as to fire over the top of a parapet, and not through embrasures.
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It was a parallelogram, and mounted barbette guns only.
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The cannon were well mounted, and placed in barbette and embrasure.
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Almost simultaneously the six secondary armament guns added their quota of death and destruction to the slower crash of the heavier weapons in the barbettes.
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