bartizan

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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.]

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  1. noun A small, overhanging turret on a wall or tower.

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  • The barred shadow on the lichened stones beyond the elm was cast by the hidden gate; and straight ahead, where, between a quaint chimney-stack and a bartizan, a triangular patch of blue showed like spangled velvet, lay the Thames. —  Brood of the Witch-Queen
  • As for the whistle, it was gaen anes and aye; 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. —  The Haunters ; The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural
  • Now as he stood to scan with purposeful eye donjon and bartizan, merlon and arrow-slit for gleam of light, for glint of mail or pike-head, he grew aware of a sound hard by, yet very faint and sweet, that came and went--a small and silvery chime he could by no means account for. —  Beltane the Smith
  • 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.] —  Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4
  • Here again all looked upward at the gray wall above them, rising up in the silent night air High aloft hung the wooden bartizan or watch-tower, clinging to the face of the outer wall and looming black against the pale sky above. —  Otto of the Silver Hand
 

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  1. Alteration of bratticing, timberwork, from brattice.

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  1. Not found before Sir W. Scott, who uses the word frequently; prob. adapted from a corrupt Scots spelling (bertisene) of bretticing, bratticing: see bratticing.
 

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/ˈbɑrtɪzən/
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