The barbette mount revolves on a support of rollers traveling upon a circular base ring.
The barbette carriage revolves about a central pintle, or axis, and turns the gun around with it.
The carriage built upon this car was of the barbette type, and it allowed the gun to be pointed upward to an angle as high as 65° and provided complete traverse, so that the mortar could be fired in any direction from the car.
The barbette railway mount is provided with struts and plates by which the car is braced against the ground.
When it was decided to put coast-defense guns on railway cars, the guns were taken from their emplacements, barbette carriages manufactured for them, and the whole mounted upon special cars.
For the 8-inch guns taken from seacoast fortifications the Ordnance Department designed a barbette mount giving complete, 360-degree, traverse, thus providing for fire in any direction.
Graphic construction of a barbette and of a direct or oblique embrasure.
Then return to this street, follow it out to the end, and you will see the Hôtel Barbette before you.
About two minutes were spent in lighting the torches, and then the gates of the Hôtel Barbette were thrown open.
There was in Paris an old irregular street, called the Street of the Old Temple, which had been built out toward the Porte Barbette at a period when the capital of France was much smaller in extent than in the reign of King Charles the Sixth.
Guns are mounted en barbette on three of its sides.
As a work of defense it has long outlived its usefulness, but in 1854 there were still guns mounted in the first tier of casemates which were considered formidable, and others were mounted enbarbette on the parapet.
Only three permanent barbette platforms had been constructed by that time.
Presently a telephone bell rings, and a voice is heard asking "if it takes a week for the barbette to get ready for action.
Round spins the barbette again on its axis, and then a terrific jerk and an awful roar as the two weapons go off together.
The captain of the gun pulls a lanyard; there is a "kick" that makes the barbette reel, then a deafening report, as a shell weighing nearly a thousand pounds speeds over the waters on its deadly mission.
Meanwhile the officer in command of the barbette calls out, "Stand by for No.
Brett; "not after your dramatic appearance in the Rue Barbette this morning?
Yet he actually had the nerve to return to the Rue Barbette later in the day.
At last the fiacre stopped in front of the house in the Rue Barbette which Brett had already scrutinized during the early hours of the morning.
Rue Barbette about midday they maintained no further guard over that house?
In accordance with your instructions, I have ordered the watchers at the Café Noir and in the Rue Barbette to be in this office at 8.
At last all was ready, and the captive of the Rue Barbette was introduced.
My visit to the Rue Barbette to-morrow morning may end quite satisfactorily.
The commissary could not reach the Rue Barbette too rapidly.
What do you say if we drive to the Rue Barbette at once?
A subaltern sergeant & 20 men to be detached from the picket guard every evening to mount guard at Red Hook Barbette battery to rejoin the picket in the morning.
Smith's Barbette to be continued till it is completed.
Warner are appointed to oversee the works at Smith's Barbette & complete them.
The Confederates suddenly removed a house near Moultrie, disclosing behind it a formidable masked battery which effectually enfiladed the barbette guns at Sumter, which, although the heaviest there were, had to be abandoned.
And if any remnant exists of the second Hotel Barbette of Diane de Poictiers, it is this corner house and its lovely turret.
Coming out by the courts opening into Rue Vieille-du-Temple, we take a few steps to where it meets the southern side of Rue des Francs-Bourgeois, and we stand on the exact site of the Porte Barbette of the old wall.
Those streets were named Barbette and Trois-Pavilions, the latter now renamed Elzevir.
All in all, no such delightful specimen of fifteenth-century Gothic as this Barbette turret can be found in our Marais.
Hotel Barbette with Isabelle of Bavaria, 269 Lulli, musician, I.
It was from the Barbette that she mismanaged the kingdom, ground down the people with intolerable taxes, pushed the marriage of her daughter Catherine with Henry V.
It has an outer scarp, or glacis, surrounded by a barbette twenty-two feet wide.
The barbetteis overgrown with weeds and cactus, all armed with projectiles more to be dreaded than any other weapons of warfare in position here now.
Rue Barbette recalls Isabel of Bavaria, that queen whom France holds in no very kindly remembrance.
Bastringuette has a cousin who lives Rue Barbette way; perhaps she's gone to see her.
In 1794, Reveroni devised a system in which the casemates of Montalembert were employed, but his guns were so arranged as to be employed in barbette while the besiegers were at a distance, and afterwards to be used for casemated fire.
The gunboats also made good ricochet practice, which was noticed to be severe on the barbette batteries.
You can see for yourself," and he turned around and waved his hand toward the barbette where the gun had been mounted.
Even part of the solid concrete bed of the barbette had been torn up.
The big gun was to be mounted on a barbette near the Gatun locks, pointing out to sea, and the trial shots would be fired over the water.
The projectile one watcher reported, had gone about three hundred yards over the top of the barbette and then dropped into the sea, very little of the force of the explosive having been expended on that.
Dian stood up, and Jean jumped about the room in sheer delight, for Marie Josephine laughed as she gave Mother Barbette a hug.
Mother Barbette was very uneasy and this made her tongue sharper than usual.
Mother Barbette wept bitterly as she saw them coming toward her through the clearing in the woods.
Madame Barbette beamed on Marie Josephine as she spoke, wiping her hands on her clean white apron.
Mother Barbette was sitting on the doorstep knitting and the white deal table was drawn close to the door.
Mother Barbettedropped her knitting in her lap and bowed her head.
Mother Barbette had wrapped her cloak about her and pulled the cape up over her curls.
Mother Barbette rose to her feet and came toward the child, a look of concern on her broad face.
None of us are as nice as Mother Barbette and we never can be--none of us, except Lisle," she said.
Mother Barbette had gone to the hovel to take some soup to Grigge's youngest sister, who was ailing.
I want to see a boy named Grigge Barbette on urgent business!
A row of jars stood on the table and Mother Barbette was covering them neatly with white paper when Marie Josephine ran up to her.
Madame Barbette smiled as she hurried down the path and then, to her right, up the driveway to the great house, which loomed grimly against the sunset-tinted sky.
Mother Barbette turned and saw a black crow sitting on the stone window ledge.
The guns are entirely of steel and are mounted on Canet carriages in four barbette towers, one forward, one aft, and one on each side amidships.
She is a barbette belted ship of somewhat similar design to the French ironclads Magenta, now being completed at the Toulon arsenal, and the Neptune, in construction at Brest.
The heavy barbette and bow guns of the Chen Yuen and other ships now joined in, but still the Japanese van squadron came on without replying.
A high sand-bank in front of one of the faces screens the fire, and a wood on another side, if occupied by riflemen, would render it difficult to work the barbette guns.
Rope mantlets are used on the breeches of some of the barbette guns.
Michou was sleeping soundly, when he heardBarbette call him.
Then, when he had taken his departure, the thought of Barbette suddenly entered his head.
Isidore sank into a chair without speaking; Barbette nodded to him, and continued stirring her stew-pan.
In two hours I will have declared on oath that Barbette was poisoned by you, and the proofs will not be wanting.
Little Barbette understood nothing, except that the wicked man who had beaten her dog without any cause had left, and that she could return to her cooking.
As he expected, he found the idiot Barbette alone in the house.
On May 31st she seems to have returned from some excursion, for she dined and supped at the hôtel Barbette and went to St. Paul to sleep.
In May the Queen gave a great fête at the hôtel Barbette to the Duc de Gueldre, at which Louis, Valentine, and several other seigneurs were present.
The King-Yuen and Lai-Yuen were two barbette ships of smaller tonnage--2850.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barbette" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
