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Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: alteration of Middle English bretasinge, from bretais parapet — more at brattice Date: 1801 a small structure (as a turret) projecting from a building and serving especially for lookout or defense

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Archit. a battlemented parapet or an overhanging corner turret at the top of a castle or church tower. Derivatives: bartizaned adj. Etymology: var. of bertisene, erron. spelling of bratticing: see BRATTICE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bartizan Bar"ti*zan`, n. [Cf. Brettice.] (Arch.) A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.

Moby Thesaurus

abatis, advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bastion, battlement, breastwork, bulwark, casemate, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, contravallation, counterscarp, curtain, demibastion, dike, drawbridge, earthwork, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, glacis, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, sally port, scarp, sconce, stockade, tenaille, vallation, vallum, work