Bartizan

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bartizan \Bar"ti*zan`\, n. [Cf. {Brettice}.] (Arch.)
     A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense,
     usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an
     entrance gateway.
     [1913 Webster]



From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "bartizan":
     abatis, advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette,
     barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bastion,
     battlement, breastwork, bulwark, casemate, cheval-de-frise,
     circumvallation, contravallation, counterscarp, curtain,
     demibastion, dike, drawbridge, earthwork, enclosure, entanglement,
     escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification,
     glacis, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound,
     outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate,
     rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, sally port, scarp, sconce,
     stockade, tenaille, vallation, vallum, work