Definitions for barbette
bɑrˈbɛtbar·bette

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. barbettenoun

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

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. barbettenoun

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

2. barbettenoun

   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.

3. Etymology: From barbette.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Barbettenoun

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

WikidataRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Barbette

   A barbette is a protective circular armour feature around a cannon or heavy artillery gun. The name comes from the French phrase en barbette referring to the practice of firing a field gun over a parapet rather than through an opening. The former gives better angles of fire but less protection. For example, the Confederate defenders at the Second Battle of Fort McAllister were unable to operate their cannons because the en barbette gun emplacements provided poor protection from Union riflemen outside the fort. Before the complete introduction of the fully enclosed armoured gun turrets, a barbette was a fixed armoured enclosure protecting the gun. The barbette could take the form of a ring of armour around the gun mount over which the guns fired. In warships from the age of the dreadnought forward, the barbette is the non-rotating drum beneath the rotating gun turret and above the armoured deck on a warship. It forms the protection for the upper ends of the hoists that lift shells and their propelling charges from the magazines below. When applied to military aircraft, largely in aviation history books written in British English, a barbette is a position on an aircraft where a gun, or guns, are in a mounting which has a restricted arc of fire when compared to a turret, or which is remotely mounted away from the gunner. As such it is frequently used to describe the tail gunner position on bombers such as the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, with American English aviation books usually describing this position as a "flexible" gun mount, when the term "turret" itself is not used.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Barbette

   bar-bėt′, n. an earthen terrace inside the parapet of a rampart, serving as a platform for heavy guns: in ironclad ships, a heavily armoured redoubt amidships. [Fr.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. barbette

   A mode of mounting guns to fire over the parapet, so as to have free range, instead of through embrasures.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. barbette

   An earthen terrace, raised within a parapet, so high as to enable guns to be fired over the latter, and therefore with a freer range than when worked at an embrasure.

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1. bebatter

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of barbette in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of barbette in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=barbette
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Barbette
3. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barbette
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=barbette
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=barbette
6. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=barbette
7. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html