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Barbican has structured its offer as a reverse takeover via an all-share deal.
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The Octagon was connected to a barbican by a bridge, probably a drawbridge.
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Its access through a gate tower and adjoining barbican has been retained.
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It is a fabulous ruin with remains of towers, walls and a barbican.
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A new entrance was created, with elaborate defences including two gatehouses and a barbican.
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At the rear of the fortress, another barbican guarded the postern entrance from the River Conwy.
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The barbican at Walmgate Bar was undermined and explosives laid, but, the plot was discovered.
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The outer ward was defended by a large twin-towered gatehouse, barbican and several round towers.
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Barbican, LondonThis was a great occasion.
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- A tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle)
- A barbican, from medieval Latin barbecana, signifying the "outer fortification of a city or castle," with cognates in the Romance languages, perhaps deriving ultimately from Arabic or Persian cf. ...
- Barbican is a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Comics Universe. His first appearance was in X-Men vol. 2 #101.
- Barbican is a thoroughbred horse. As a foal of 2003, he was a possible contender for the Triple Crown in 2006. He fractured a sesamoid bone during a workout and so fell out of the Triple Crown picture.
- A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town
- Outworks, especially in front of a gate. A heavily fortified gate or tower.
- An approach to a town or castle which is defended by a field of fire from one or more towers, generally two. The barbican itself, an outcropping from the gatehouse, allowed approach to the gate only through a narrow, easily defended passage.
- An outwork or forward extension of a castle gateway.
- The OUTWORK for an entrance to a fortification, especially at a bridge or gate; see REDOUBT, SENTRY BOX, GUARDHOUSE. [v: Military Earthworks Terms]
