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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a gun carriage elevated so that the gun can be fired over the parapet;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Barbette \Bar*bette"\, n. [F. Cf. Barbet.] (Fort.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet. [1913 Webster] En barbette, In barbette, said of guns when they are elevated so as to fire over the top of a parapet, and not through embrasures. Barbette gun, or Barbette battery, a single gun, or a number of guns, mounted in barbette, or partially protected by a parapet or turret. Barbette carriage, a gun carriage which elevates guns sufficiently to be in barbette. [See Illust. of Casemate.] [1913 Webster] Barbican
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

barbette carriage n 1: a gun carriage elevated so that the gun can be fired over the parapet