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brat⋅tice

  [brat-is] noun, verb, -ticed, -tic⋅ing.
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–noun
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, esp. at the top of a wall.
Origin:
1300–50; ME brutaske, bretage, bretice < AF bretaske, bretage, AF, OF bretesche wooden parapet on a fortress < ML (9th century) brittisca, appar. a Latinized form of OE Bryttisc British (or a new formation in ML), on the presumption that such parapets were introduced from Britain
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brat·tice   (brāt'ĭs)   
n.  

  1. A partition, typically of wood or cloth, erected in a mine for ventilation.

  2. A breastwork erected during a siege.


[Middle English bretice, defensive structure, from Old French bretesche, from Medieval Latin bretescha (turris), British-style (tower), probably from Old English bryttisc, British.]
brat'tice v.
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