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Gun Diagram (barbette #8)

Etymology

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Borrowed from French barbette.

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barbette (plural barbettes)

  1. A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.
    • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 276:
      Cleverly camouflaged with grey felt, which exactly matched the colour of the walls, it led upwards to a barbette, or platform, perched beside the gate.
  2. (nautical) The inside fixed trunk of a warship's gun-mounting, on which the turret revolves. It contains the hoists for shells and cordite from the shell-room and magazine.
    • 1899, John Scott-Keltie, editor, Statesman's Year-Book 1899:
      The belted cruiser Pamiat Azova or Remembrance of Azoff, is 377 feet long. She is an improved Dmitri Dontskoi, and carries her two 8-inch guns in sponsoned barbettes on either broadside

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  • Irish: bairbéad

French

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Etymology

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From barbe +‎ -ette.

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  • IPA(key): /baʁ.bɛt/
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barbette f (plural barbettes)

  1. (obsolete) small beard
  2. (archaic) cowl
  3. (fortifications) barbette

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barbette f

  1. plural of barbetta