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barmkin north. arch.|ˈbɑːmkɪn|
Forms: 4 barmeken, (5 barnekynch), 6 barmekyn, -kin, barnekine, 5– barmkin.
[Perh. f. Teut. barm (ON. barmr brim, border, edge, wing of castle; cf. berm). The second syllable may be the dim. suffix -kin, though the meaning hardly suits. Possibly a corruption of, or confused with, barbican.]
The battlement of the outer fortification of a castle; the outer fortification, or barbican; a turret or watch tower on the outer wall.
c1340Alexander (Stev.) 1301 Balaan in þe barmeken · sa bitterly fiȝtis. a1440Sir Degrev. 375 At the barnekynch he abad, And lordelych doune lyght. c1470Henry Wallace viii. 1067 Fehew him self..Throuch all the fyr can on the barmkyn lycht. 1513Douglas æneis xii. x. 64 Thame quhilkis on the barmkin heid remanis. 1577Holinshed Chron. III. 874/2 Ouerthrew eighteene towers of stone, with all their barnekines. a1811J. Leyden Ld. Soulis v, And he call'd on a page, who was witty and sage, To go to the barmkin high. |