brattice
Meaningwooden defensive structure
Common meaning: temporary partition or ventilation barrier in a mine
- bratticewooden defensive structureSkeat, Concise Etymological Dictionary (1911), p. 60 · scan
Journey through time
- Old Frenchbretesche‘wooden defensive structure’source
- Middle Englishmeaning shiftswooden defensive structure → battlementbretasce‘battlement’source
- Englishmeaning shiftsbattlement → temporary partition or ventilation barrier in a minebrattice‘temporary partition or ventilation barrier in a mine’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Old French bretesche ‘wooden defensive structure’.
Roots
- bretesche Old French “wooden defensive structure”
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