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Definition of Bartizan
1. n. A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.
Definition of Bartizan
1. Noun. (alternative form of bartisan) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bartizan
1. a small turret [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bartizan
Literary usage of Bartizan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical and Statistical Account of Dunfermline by Peter Chalmers (1859)
"... was taking a view of the surrounding county from this lofty station (the
bartizan of the old steeple), when a Highlander, who had remained behind as a ..."
2. The History of Brechin, to 1864 by David Dakers Black (1867)
"The top of the steeple is battlemented and surrounded with a bartizan, out of
which rises ... The ascent to the bartizan is by a spiral stair of 111 steps, ..."
3. The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotlandby Robert William Billings, John Hill Burton by Robert William Billings, John Hill Burton (1901)
"Second, There appears in immediate contiguity the conically-covered turret (said
to be of French or Flemish origin) and the open corbelled bartizan, ..."
4. Lectures Delivered to the Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle-upon by Thomas Hodgkin, Robert Spence Watson, Richard Welford, Richard Oliver Heslop (1898)
"... and in an illiterate seventeenth-century spelling, it met the keen eye of Sir
Walter Scott, and he forthwith adopted it, formulating it as bartizan. ..."
5. Memorials of Angus and the Mearns: Being an Account, Historical, Antiquarian by Andrew Jervise (1861)
"An octagonal staircase at the north-east angle leads to the bartizan, ... A fine
floral moulding rims along the base of the bartizan on the west, ..."
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