barbican

If the barbican fell, the castle still had two courtyards, or baileys, from which last gasp fighting could be carried out.

The stone part of the drawbridge with its barbican and the bartizans of the gatehouse are in good repair.

And suddenly the madness was behind and they were clattering across the cobbled square that fronted on the castle barbican.

A good friend, sir, to a man in danger, may stand like a barbican, as it were, before a fortress, encountering the first attack of the enemy.

Soon in his saddle sate he fast, And soon the steep descent he past, Soon crossed the sounding barbican, And soon the Teviot side he won.