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Definition of Barmkin
1. Noun. (obsolete) The battlement on the exterior fortification of a castle in northern England and parts of Scotland; a barbican. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Barmkin
1. a battlement [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barmkin
Literary usage of Barmkin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"barmkin, a corruption of barbican, a watch-tower on a castle or fortress. ...
And broad and bloody rose the sun, And on the barmkin shone. ..."
2. The Spottiswoode Miscellany: A Collection of Original Papers and Tracts by James Maidment (1845)
"We geid in at the utter barmkin with the rest, but they closed the zett of ...
and sett fyre to the zett of the inner barmkin, brunt it, and hurt some of ..."
3. History of England Under Henry the Fourth by James Hamilton Wylie (1894)
"On the north-west corner of the fortifications was a stank with a postern
strengthened by a barmkin' or apron of stone. The King's army was soon in ..."
4. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Staistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1883)
"Two Caledonian stone circles, and a ruinous circular enclosure of loose stones,
called the barmkin, are the chief antiquities. ..."
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