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n. A platform or mound of earth within a fort from which guns are fired over the parapet.

n. An armored protective cylinder around a revolving gun turret on a warship.

n. A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.

n. 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.

n. A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.

n. The platform or breastwork of a fortification, from which cannon may be fired over the parapet instead of through embrasures.

n. A cylindrical armored structure built up in the interior of a war-ship and projecting above the deck.

n. (formerly) a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet

"The big naval guns, brought from the empty ships in the basin, were mounted en barbette, meaning there were not enough embrasures to protect them so the weapons were firing directly over the wall's parapet and British gunner officers hungrily watched those pieces through their telescopes."

in barbette    barbette battery   

hill    mound   

battery    to fire in barbette    barbette carriage    barbette ship    barbette gun   

Annette    Antoinette    Bernadette    Bizet    Bret   

nine-volt    reprise    Eiffel    37-mm    88-mm