brattice

1) The verb was used originally to mean ‘to fortify with a wooden breastwork’.

It developed a number of related meanings. In the York Minster fabric accounts the noun was defined as ‘the upper finishing or parapet of a wall’: 1360 Pro iij tunall emptis pro bretissinge super portam de Ugelforde, York.

spellings brettise
places York
dates 1360

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