Bar-bĕtte', n.

n. [Fr.] (Fort.) A mound of earth on which guns are mounted to fire over the top of the parapet.

☞ Guns are in barbette when they are elevated so as to fire over the top of a parapet, and not through embrasures. —A barbette gun, or battery, a single gun, or a number of guns, mounted in barbette. —Barbette-carriage, a gun carriage which elevates guns sufficiently to be in barbette. [See Illust. of Gun-carriage, and Casemate.]