How To Use Barbette In A Sentence
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The barbette mounted the gun on a pivot so that it could fire over a parapet.
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The Theodore Roosevelt let fly at once with the big guns in her forward barbette, but the shells burst far below the
The War in the Air
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Gangs of moggs tugged on lines, rocking the gun carriage back and forth until it slipped onto the prepared barbette.
Nemesis
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The port upper tread casing was split, the barbette was damaged so that the gun would no longer. train, and the conning tower was cracked along its after surface.
The Past Through Tomorrow
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In the 1890s the barbette mounting for coastal-defense guns became the preferred pattern.
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Dropping down to the seabed, the smaller barbettes and guns could be seen, and huge 13.5in projectiles lay scattered on the sand.
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The main 76 mm gun was carried in a barbette on the right side of the hull, with a turret above carrying a smaller 37 mm gun.
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_Devastation_ type of turret-ship were retained, mounted fore and aft, but instead of placing them in turrets, the turret armour was fixed to the deck, forming what is known as a "barbette," or breastwork, over the upper edge of which the gun fired.
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900
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Our picture shows the 76 mm gun barbette on one of the tanks.
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The barbette or porkpie hat was a stiff band of several inches depth that went around the head with a piece of fabric wrapping underthe chin to hold it on.
When Were Women’s Hats in Fashion? « Colleen Anderson
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Several crews just locked the barbettes in a fixed, rear-firing position.
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The barbette or porkpie hat was a stiff band of several inches depth that went around the head with a piece of fabric wrapping underthe chin to hold it on.
When Were Women’s Hats in Fashion? « Colleen Anderson
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At the top of the barbettes, revolving on rollers, are the turrets, sometimes called the hoods, containing the guns and the leading mechanism and all of the machinery in connection with the same.
Marvels of Modern Science
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The barbette mounted the gun on a pivot so that it could fire over a parapet.
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Germans, had a "barbette" top, which looked like the shell of a tortoise, fitted down over the chassis.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
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For exterior defence, he employed direct fire from his barbettes, and curvated fire from his casemates; the direct fire of the latter secured his ditches.
Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition
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In the interior was a shed for a guard room, and a small magazine under the barbette platform.
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The big naval guns, brought from the empty ships in the basin, were mounted en barbette, meaning there were not enough embrasures to protect them so the weapons were firing directly over the wall's parapet and British gunner officers hungrily watched those pieces through their telescopes.
Sharpe's Prey
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An athwartship line of armor runs from the water line to the barbettes, resting upon the protective deck.
Marvels of Modern Science
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Near tank, hunders of high speed running barbette still act for defense main part.
Mini Star | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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The northwest front has now five arches with ramparts fallen in; northeast barbette battery unserviceable; east front scarp much scaled by slant fire, with large craters under traverses; principal injury at level of arches and terreplein; two-thirds of southern wall east of magazine damaged; stone abutment unhurt and protected by rubbish; gorge not damaged since yesterday.
Memoirs of the War of Secession
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Also can suit to enhance range and nicety of barbette, convenience to repaire and update.
Mini Star | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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She carries an obsolete "barbette" conning tower -- a six-foot affair with railed platform forward -- and our warning beam plays on the top of it as a policeman's lantern flashes on the area sneak.
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