Crossword clues for barbacan
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barbican \Bar"bi*can\, Barbacan \Bar"ba*can\, n. [OE. barbican, barbecan, F. barbacane, LL. barbacana, barbicana, of uncertain origin: cf. Ar. barbakh aqueduct, sewer. F. barbacane also means, an opening to let out water, loophole.]
(Fort.) A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own.
An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.
Barbacan \Bar"ba*can\, n. See Barbican.
Wiktionary
n. (archaic spelling of barbican English)
WordNet
n. a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) [syn: barbican]
Usage examples of "barbacan".
Barbacan, in a deep cave in a mountain called Aida, the dactyl basked in the sensation of fear.
Through the barbacans the shafts of light are moving ever, slowly ever as my feet are sinking, creeping duskward over the dial floor.
From the high barbacans of the tower two shafts of light fall on the smokepalled altarstone.
A pair of catapults fell before our fires, but what are they compared to the hundreds of war engines in a line rolling down from the Barbacan?
Then the dactyl began a more insidious attack, a mental barrage of images of torture and agony, and Maiyer Dek, the proud and strong leader, the strongest mortal creature in all the Barbacan, whimpered pitifully and squirmed about on the floor, begging for mercy.
Maiyer Dek, the proud and strong leader, the strongest mortal creature in all the Barbacan, whimpered pitifully and squirmed about on the floor, begging for mercy.
Hundreds of miles away, in a windswept, foreboding land called the Barbacan, in a deep cave in a mountain called Aida, the dactyl basked in the sensation of fear.
CHAPTER 51 Aida Elbryan and Pony were coming down the northwestern face of the mountainous barrier when dawn broke over the Barbacan.
There were even reports of a smoke cloud rising lazily over the Barbacan, streaming from a solitary mountain known as Aida.
He came past the storm, out of the rain, but though the sky was brighter, the scene before the monk, the towering outline of the Barbacan, was not.
But the monk had to put his own desires aside, for the others back in the forest would need to know what he had learned, would need to know of the smoking mountain and the Barbacan, the confirmation of their dark suspicions.
But the boisterous moment could not last, not with so grim a prospect as a journey to the Barbacan before them.
And for myself, I pledge now that I will deliver Brother Avelyn to the Barbacan, to the fiendish head of our enemy.
For those few heading north to the Barbacan, it was a difficult parting, but especially so for Elbryan, who had come to feel as a .
They came through the pass of the great Barbacan with night still thick about them, having put many miles behind them in a furious rush.