barbette carriage

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

   Broadergun carriage

Questions about barbette carriage

What does barbette carriage mean?

barbette carriage means "a gun carriage elevated so that the gun can be fired over the parapet".

Is barbette carriage a common word?

barbette carriage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.