Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small, overhanging turret on a wall or tower.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, a small overhanging turret, pierced with loopholes or embrasures, or with both, and projecting generally from an angle at the top of a tower, or from the parapet of a building or medieval fortification-wall.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.
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- noun Alternative form of
bartisan .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The heavy yet hasty step of the men-at-arms traversed the battlements, or resounded on the narrow and winding passages and stairs which led to the various bartizans [Footnote: A bartizan is a sort of small overhanging balcony, built for defense or for lookout.] and points of defense.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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The bartizan is the only anxious place, but as I mean to take Davie with me, you may think I do not count it very dangerous! "
Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864
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But the noise attending the first operation caught the wakeful attention of Edward, who, starting to the bartizan, called to know what the matter was.
The Monastery 2008
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And with this disconsolate reflection, he wended his way to the bartizan or battlements of the tower, to watch what objects might appear on the distant moor, or to pelt, with pebbles and pieces of lime, the sea-mews and cormorants which established themselves incautiously within the reach of an idle young man.
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As for the whistle, it was gaen anes and ay; but mony a time was it heard at the top of the house on the bartizan, and amang the auld chimneys and turrets where the howlets have their nests.
Redgauntlet 2008
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For this purpose, with slow and idle step, he paraded the terrace, which, flanked with a heavy stone battlement, stretched in front of the castle upon a level with the first story; while visitors found access to the court by a projecting gateway, the bartizan or flat-leaded roof of which was accessible from the terrace by an easy flight of low and broad steps.
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“Rin up to the bartizan at the tower-head, callant,” said
The Monastery 2008
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A protecting bartizan or two, with the addition of small turrets at the angles, much resembling pepper-boxes, had procured for Darnlinvarach the dignified appellation of a castle.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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“There is a lodging, certainly,” said Otto to the sentinel, who pointed towards the castle with his bartizan;
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“There is a lodging, certainly,” said Otto to the sentinel, who pointed towards the castle with his bartizan;
Burlesques 2006
reesetee commented on the word bartizan
A small overhanging turret on a wall or tower.
November 30, 2007