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单词 barbette
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barbetten.

Brit. /bɑːˈbɛt/, U.S. /bɑrˈbɛt/
Etymology: French, diminutive of barbe beard: see -ette suffix.
A platform or mound of earth within a fortification, on which guns are raised so that they can be fired over the parapet. guns en barbette, barbette gun or barbette battery: those so mounted as to fire over the parapet; similarly in ironclad ships (see quot. 1876). Hence attributive, as in barbette-cruiser, barbette-turret.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > battery
battery1555
counter-battery1603
swallow's nest1604
field battery1742
radeau1753
guns en barbette1772
half-moon battery1794
sap battery1810
sunken battery1817
screw battery1848
wool-battery1852
masked battery1861
mountain battery1868
machine-gun battery1882
society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > firing platform for artillery
platform1535
battery1590
terreplein1591
barbette1823
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > guns by position
flanker1575
barbette gun1872
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > ship's guns collectively > in specific position
broadside1589
chase1622
bow-pieces1627
stern-chase1679
fore-chase1726
barbette battery1876
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > cruiser
cruiser1679
North Sea groper1830
barbette-cruiser1884
gun cruiser1884
cruiser-battleship1909
battle-cruiser1911
1772 T. Simes Mil. Guide When the parapet of a work is only of such a height that the guns may fire over it without being obliged to make embrasures, it is said the guns fire en Barbet.
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto VII xii. 71 Two batteries..Case-mated one, and t'other ‘a barbette.’
1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada vii. 151 A huge slab pointed out like a barbette gun.
1876 Daily News 5 May 6/1 A ‘barbette’ battery..is a battery of guns exposed on the upper deck, but enclosed in a fixed turret, which only partially..protects the guns and the gunners.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Dec. 2/2 A twin-screw barbette cruiser.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

barbettev.

Etymology: < Old French barbete-r, -etter (= modern French barboter). Compare Italian barbottare to stammer, mumble, balbottevole stammering, Latin balbūtīre to stammer.
Obsolete. rare.
To make inarticulate sounds, to mutter.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > mutter or mumble
mamblea1275
mumblec1350
blabber1362
babblea1400
muttera1425
pattera1425
rumble1440
barbettec1480
murmell1546
palter?1548
buzz1555
fumble1563
drumble1579
to sup up1579
radote?1590
chunter1599
putter1611
mussitate1623
muss1661
muffle1669
slobber1692
thruma1774
fumfer1954
c1480 W. Caxton tr. Ovid Met. xiv. iii Whan they wene to speke they barbette wt gronyng voys.
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