Usually means: Elevated platform for mounting guns.
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  1. barbette: Merriam-Webster
  2. barbette: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. barbette: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. barbette: Collins English Dictionary
  5. barbette: Vocabulary.com
  6. Barbette, barbette: Wordnik
  7. barbette: Wiktionary
  8. barbette: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. barbette: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Barbette, barbette: Dictionary.com
  11. Barbette (performer), Barbette: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Barbette: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. barbette: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. barbette: Rhymezone
  15. Barbette: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. barbette: FreeDictionary.org
  17. barbette: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. barbette: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. barbette: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (barbette)

noun:  A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.
noun:  (nautical) The inside fixed trunk of a warship's gun-mounting, on which the turret revolves. It contains the hoists for shells and cordite from the shell-room and magazine.

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