Meaning Barbette
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Barbette Raised platform or mound allowing an artillery piece to be fired over a fortification's walls without exposing the gun crew to enemy fire.
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BarbetteA wooden or earthen platform inside a fortification, on which the cannon were placed in order to allow them to shoot over the rampart. Often, the same as a terreplein. Barrel:
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Barbette(n) (formerly) a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet
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BarbetteThe inside fixed trunk of a warship's turreted gun-mounting, on which the turret revolves.
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BarbetteCylindrical structure built up to armor plates extending from the protected deck of a war vessel to the lower side of the turret shelf plate. They form protective enclosures in which are located the t [..]
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Barbette Protective circular armor mount for a cannon on a warship (think turret ring).
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Barbette
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 2010, p. 276:
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