单词 | barbette |
释义 | barbetten. A platform or mound of earth within a fortification, on which guns are raised so that they can be fired over the parapet. guns en barbette, barbette gun or barbette battery: those so mounted as to fire over the parapet; similarly in ironclad ships (see quot. 1876). Hence attributive, as in barbette-cruiser, barbette-turret. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > battery battery1555 counter-battery1603 swallow's nest1604 field battery1742 radeau1753 guns en barbette1772 half-moon battery1794 sap battery1810 sunken battery1817 screw battery1848 wool-battery1852 masked battery1861 mountain battery1868 machine-gun battery1882 society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > firing platform for artillery platform1535 battery1590 terreplein1591 barbette1823 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > guns by position flanker1575 barbette gun1872 society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > ship's guns collectively > in specific position broadside1589 chase1622 bow-pieces1627 stern-chase1679 fore-chase1726 barbette battery1876 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > cruiser cruiser1679 North Sea groper1830 barbette-cruiser1884 gun cruiser1884 cruiser-battleship1909 battle-cruiser1911 1772 T. Simes Mil. Guide When the parapet of a work is only of such a height that the guns may fire over it without being obliged to make embrasures, it is said the guns fire en Barbet. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto VII xii. 71 Two batteries..Case-mated one, and t'other ‘a barbette.’ 1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada vii. 151 A huge slab pointed out like a barbette gun. 1876 Daily News 5 May 6/1 A ‘barbette’ battery..is a battery of guns exposed on the upper deck, but enclosed in a fixed turret, which only partially..protects the guns and the gunners. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Dec. 2/2 A twin-screw barbette cruiser. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † barbettev. Obsolete. rare. To make inarticulate sounds, to mutter. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > mutter or mumble mamblea1275 mumblec1350 blabber1362 babblea1400 muttera1425 pattera1425 rumble1440 barbettec1480 murmell1546 palter?1548 buzz1555 fumble1563 drumble1579 to sup up1579 radote?1590 chunter1599 putter1611 mussitate1623 muss1661 muffle1669 slobber1692 thruma1774 fumfer1954 c1480 W. Caxton tr. Ovid Met. xiv. iii Whan they wene to speke they barbette wt gronyng voys. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1772v.c1480 |
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