Brattice - Timber tower or projecting wooden gallery; hoarding.
Breastwork - Heavy parapet slung between two gate towers; defense work over the portcullis.
Bressumer - Beam to support a projection.
Brattice: (see hoarding)
Buttery: room for the service of beverages
Concentric: having two sets of walls, one inside the other ...
Brattice or Hoarding
covered wooden gallery with holes in the floor, which was attached to the top of the external wall of a stone castle so that defenders could see and fire upon assailants at the base of the wall. Also spelt bractice or bretasche.
Brattice, Brattish, Brettice: (1) A small stone gallery built out from a castles parapet or wall on corbels but lacking foot boards.
[variant of bratticing; see brattice]
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Hoarding - also known as brattice or breteche. A timber gallery built out at the top of a wall or tower, sometimes with a roof, ...
Brattice A wooden tower or a projecting wooden gallery at the top of a wall
Breastplate Armour to protect the chest. Part of the cuirass
Bressumer A beam used as a support for a projection ...
 See also: Tower, Turret, Gallery, Moat, Hoarding
  
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