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A variety of small dog, having long curly hair.

or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet. En barbette, In barbette, said of guns when they are elevated so as to fire over the top of a parapet, and not through embrasures. -- Barbette gun, or Barbette battery, a single gun, or a number of guns, mounted in barbette, or part…

pments. In the United States, a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns. Barbette battery. See Barbette. -- Battery d'enfilade, or Enfilading battery, one that sweeps the whole length of a line of troops or part of a work. -- Battery en écharpe, one that plays obliquely. -- Battery gun, a gun capabl…

A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gum moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.]

An East Indian barbet (Megalaima faber), inhabiting the Island of Hainan. The name alludes to its note, which resembles the sounds made by a smith.

A group of birds including the woodpeckers, toucans, barbets, colies, kingfishes, hornbills, and some other related groups.

ll birds, usually with dull-colored and loose plumage, and have twelve tail feathers. See Barbet (b).

odactylous birds. In a restricted sense applied to a division of birds which includes the barbets, toucans, honey guides, and other related birds.