'Barbette carriage' definitions:
Definition of 'barbette carriage'
From: WordNet
noun
A gun carriage elevated so that the gun can be fired over the parapet
Definition of 'Barbette carriage'
From: GCIDE
- Barbette \Bar*bette"\, n. [F. Cf. Barbet.] (Fort.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet. [1913 Webster]
- En barbette, In barbette, said of guns when they are elevated so as to fire over the top of a parapet, and not through embrasures.
- Barbette gun, or Barbette battery, a single gun, or a number of guns, mounted in barbette, or partially protected by a parapet or turret.
- Barbette carriage, a gun carriage which elevates guns sufficiently to be in barbette. [See Illust. of Casemate.] [1913 Webster] Barbican