barbican

Etymology
From, of uncertain origin: compare 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town.
 * 2) A fortress at the end of a bridge.
 * 3) An opening in the wall of a fortress through which the guns are levelled; a narrow loophole through which arrows and other missiles may be shot.
 * 4) A temporary wooden tower built for defensive purposes.
 * 1) A temporary wooden tower built for defensive purposes.
 * 1) A temporary wooden tower built for defensive purposes.

Synonyms

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Translations

 * Basque: barbakana
 * Bulgarian: барбакан
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: barbakán
 * Dutch: barbacane
 * Esperanto: barbakano
 * Estonian: barbakaan
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: Barbakane
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Latvian: barbakāns
 * Lithuanian: barbakanas
 * Occitan:
 * Old Portuguese: barvacãa
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, стре́льница
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: барбакан
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: barbakán
 * Slovene: barbakan
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: барбака́н