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Definition of Barbette carriage
1. Noun. A gun carriage elevated so that the gun can be fired over the parapet.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barbette Carriage
Literary usage of Barbette carriage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Military Commission to Europe in 1855 and 1856: Report of Major Alfred by Alfred Mordecai, Josiah Gorgas, Julius Schön (1861)
"In the chassis of the barbette carriage, the middle transom, ... The general
arrangement of the barbette carriage is shown in Plate 13, Fig. 1. ..."
2. A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer: Comprising Ancient and Modern Military by Thomas Wilhelm (1881)
"They formed into bodies and defended the Alps. barbette carriage. Is a carriage
of the stationary clase, on which a gun is mounted to fire over H parapet; ..."
3. Hand-book of Artillery for the Service of the United States: (Army & Militia). by Joseph Roberts (1863)
"What is a BARBETTE carriage ? It is a carriage belonging to the class denominated
immovable, on which a gun is mounted to fire over a parapet; ..."
4. Hand-book of Naval Gunnery by Cyrus S. Radford, Stokely Morgan, United States Navy Dept (1898)
"A. The barbette carriage, the half-turret carriage, the central-pivot ... A.
The barbette carriage is a central-pivot carriage fitted in the earlier ships ..."
5. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1880)
"barbette carriage.—Fig. 8285 represents the altered barbette carriage used in
permanent fortifications for the 8-inch breech-loading rifle. ..."
6. The Artillerist's Manual by John Gibbon (1860)
"The barbette carriage, however, is used only in a fixed position in garrison,
and is a carnage ... A barbette-gun is any gun mounted on a barbette carriage. ..."
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