Barbicans [noun]

On entering the small outer barbican, which is reached by a lane from the market-place, we come to the base of the Norman keep.

He heard the voices of the sentries in the barbican as they conversed with the newcomers.

The principal barbican, or watch tower, is not at the entrance, but towards the north-east corner.

Ten flanking towers protected its gateways, which, in their turn, were preceded each by a barbican.

The barbican, or outwork of the fortification, was situated beyond the outer ditch, if it ever existed.

Neither lights nor any other signs of human beings were to be seen, and without misadventure we gained the base of the barbican.

That on the east is defended by two great towers and a semicircular barbican.

On the side of the town the castle is protected by a wide moat, and the entrance is masked by another large semicircular barbican.

They could walk along the high crenellated walls of the Barbican and shoot thence, and stop the way by lowering the portcullis.

I myself am called by my intimates, Memory Barbican, and I can recollect events and stories indifferently well; but you!