barbetteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from French barbette.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /bɑːˈbɛt/
• 韻: -ɛt

名詞

barbette (複数形 barbettes)

1. A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.
   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 276:

     Cleverly camouflaged with grey felt, which exactly matched the colour of the walls, it led upwards to a barbette, or platform, perched beside the gate.

2. (nautical) The inside fixed trunk of a warship's gun-mounting, on which the turret revolves. It contains the hoists for shells and cordite from the shell-room and magazine.
   • 1899, John Scott-Keltie, editor, Statesman's Year-Book 1899:

     The belted cruiser Pamiat Azova or Remembrance of Azoff, is 377 feet long. She is an improved Dmitri Dontskoi, and carries her two 8-inch guns in sponsoned barbettes on either broadside

派生語

• barbette carriage
• barbette gun
• en barbette, in barbette

派生した語

• → Irish: bairbéad