| 单词 | barbette-cruiser |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbarbette-cruiser 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. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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