brattice

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A partition in a coal mine, made from wood or from canvas sheeting coated in tar.
2. isim A wooden structure used for attack or defence, such as an archery tower, or a penthouse built over the entry to a castle for archers to shoot from.

   “[…] When a breach was made in the castle wall, a brattice could be built within to serve as a new temporary defence.”

3. fiil To divide into partitions of this kind.