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• BARBETTE (Fr. diminutive of barbe, a beard)

BARBETTE (Fr. diminutive of barbe, a See also:

• BEARD (A.S. beard, O. H. and Mod. Ger. Bart, Dan. beard, Icel. bar, rim, edge, beak of a ship, &c., O. Slay. barda, Russ. barodd. Cf. Welsh barf, Lat.. barba, though, according to the New English Dictionary, the connexion is for phonetic reasons doubtful)
• BEARD, WILLIAM HOLBROOK (1825-1900)

beard) , a See also:

• PLATFORM (Fr. plateforme, i.e. ground plan)

platform inside a fortification raised sufficiently high for See also:

• ARTILLERY (the O. Fr. artiller, to equip with engines of war, probably comes from Late Lat. articulum, dim. of ars, art, cf. " engine " from ingenium, or of artus, joint)

artillery placed thereon to be able to See also:

• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire en See also:

• BARBETTE (Fr. diminutive of barbe, a beard)

barbette, viz. over the See also:

• TOP (cf. Dan. top, Ger. Topf, also meaning pot)

top of the See also:

• PARAPET (Ital. parapetto, Fr. parapet, from para, imperative of Ital. porare, to cover, defend, and petto, breast, Lat. pectus; the German word is Brustwehr)

parapet; also in warships a raised platform, protected by See also:

• ARMOUR, PHILIP DANFORTH (1832-1901)

armour on the sides, upon which guns are mounted en barbette .