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Definitions for Brattice
[1] a partition or lining, as of planks or cloth, forming an air passage in a mine.
[2] (in medieval architecture) any temporary wooden fortification, especially at the top of a wall.
[3] to provide with a brattice (often followed by up ).
[4] a partition of wood or treated cloth used to control ventilation in a mine
[5] medieval fortifications a fixed wooden tower or parapet
[6] (tr) mining to fit with a brattice
Words nearby Brattice
brat pack, bratislava, bratpack, bratsk, brattain, brattice, brattishing, brattle, brattleboro, bratty, bratwurst
Origin of Brattice
1300–50; Middle English brutaske, bretage, bretice < Anglo-French bretaske, bretage, Anglo-French, Old French bretesche wooden parapet on a fortress < Medieval Latin (9th century) brittisca, apparently a Latinized form of Old English Bryttisc British (or a new formation in ML), on the presumption that such parapets were introduced from Britain
Word origin for Brattice
C13: from Old French bretesche wooden tower, from Medieval Latin breteschia , probably from Latin Britō a Briton