Meaning of BARTIZAN
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| | Definition: | | \Bar"ti*zan`\, n. [Cf. {Brettice}.] (Arch.)
A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense,
usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an
entrance gateway.
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| | Related Terms: | | abatis, advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bastion, battlement, breastwork, bulwark, casemate, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, contravallation, counterscarp, curtain, demibastion, dike, drawbridge, earthwork, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, glacis, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, sally port, scarp, sconce, stockade, tenaille, vallation, vallum, work |
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