barbacan

Definitions

Examples

• The strife still continued within and without the barbacan, and ended without much advantage on either side.

• A band of picked men, under an experienced officer, threw themselves into the barbacan, determined to defend it to the last.

• Behind Eagle Cliff, almost isolating it from the mountain, of which it is the barbacan, a hideous ravine yawns upon the pass.

• Villages were established on the river of Barbacan, Aborlan, and as far as Ypolote.

• They inhabit the upper parts of the mountains between Babuyan and Barbacan, say from 10° to 10° 20′ N. latitude.