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- noun Plural form of
barbette .
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Examples
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The barbettes, that is, the parapets supporting the gun turrets, are one forward and one aft.
Marvels of Modern Science Paul Severing
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"barbettes," or steel turrets, and completely protected armored cars, used to transport troops or detachments of men.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Kelly Miller 1901
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Running gun tower usually set team of circle diameter 20 meter with 5 barbettes, east, south, west, north each set, middle set one in overall arrangement.
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Waken full up the battle power of barbettes, even put they installed on elevator type of fastness braces, when enemy gun fire assault to, that will be reduce enemy shoot rate.
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All of the buildings showed the restrained bulges of phaser and shield barbettes.
Infiltrator W.R. Thompson 1996
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Theoretically these guns should have been able to pierce even the heavily armoured plating of the barbettes, but no projectile penetrated the armour of the two ships, though shot after shot came thundering against them.
Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale
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The "Cristobal Colon," originally built for the Italian Navy as the "Giuseppe Garibaldi," and purchased by Spain and renamed, had only the quick-firers, and had no guns in her barbettes.
Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale
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The thin steel roofs of barbettes, and the shields of many of the guns, had been removed, as the
Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale
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Some of these had armour on the barbettes in which their long bow-guns were mounted, but their "protection" consisted in a deck plated with steel covering the "vitals" of the ship, boilers, engines, and magazines, all placed as low as possible in the hull.
Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale
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Round the barbettes of the ships sacks of coal were stacked as an emergency method of strengthening these defences.
Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale
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