Bretesche

Quick meaning: Bretesche is a noun meaning Alternative form of brattice.

Meaning

Alternative form of brattice.

Example Sentences

In preparing the site for a bretesche, if the Normans found an earthen mound already existing, they naturally made use of it.

Some of the towers had attached to their walls — generally over the gateway — a bretesche, or penthouse , with loops and meurtrières. Clennell Tower, for instance, is described in 1541 as "newly reparelled and brattyshed."

The gallery may have received protection by a bretesche or a machicolated battlement and may have been used for raising a drawbridge, if such existed in front of the entrance doorway; or the doorway may have contained a hoist .

Another chamber or building and a bretesche lay outside this gate . A cruck-built wooden grange and a byre lay in the lower courtyard of the castle (seemingly a reference to the bailey). A masonry-built hall was also standing .

Word Forms

• bretesches

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bretesse, brattice, stob, breast, screen, breaker.

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