bartizan

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bartizan \Bar"ti*zan`\, n. [Cf. {Brettice}.] (Arch.)
   A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense,
   usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an
   entrance gateway.
   [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "bartizan":
      abatis, advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette,
      barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bastion,
      battlement, breastwork, bulwark, casemate, cheval-de-frise,
      circumvallation, contravallation, counterscarp, curtain,
      demibastion, dike, drawbridge, earthwork, enclosure, entanglement,
      escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification,
      glacis, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound,
      outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate,
      rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, sally port, scarp, sconce,
      stockade, tenaille, vallation, vallum, work
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