"bretesche" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1894, Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society (Southampton, England), Papers and Proceedings, page 263",
          "text": "... still further west , upon which a bretesche would rest overhanging the entrance. The keep entrance was dealt with at the same time, the existing ribbed inner portion, replacing the Norman entrance which has entirely disappeared."
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          "ref": "1897, William Weaver Tomlinson, Life in Northumberland During the Sixteenth Century, page 27:",
          "text": "Some of the towers had attached to their walls — generally over the gateway — a bretesche, or penthouse , with loops and meurtrières. Clennell Tower, for instance, is described in 1541 as \"newly reparelled and brattyshed.\"",
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          "ref": "1907, Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, page 126:",
          "text": "The gallery may have received protection by a bretesche or a machicolated battlement and may have been used for raising a drawbridge, if such existed in front of the entrance doorway; or the doorway may have contained a hoist ...",
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          "ref": "1920, The Irish Monthly:",
          "text": "In preparing the site for a bretesche, if the Normans found an earthen mound already existing, they naturally made use of it.",
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          "ref": "1964, Richard Hayward, Munster and the City of Cork:",
          "text": "On the summit of the mound, known as a mote or motte, a bretesche or wooden archery tower was erected for the use of the knight and his officers, whilst at a lower level an enclosure, encircled by a palisade and known as a bailey ...",
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          "ref": "1998, Kieran Denis O'Conor, The Archaeology of Medieval Rural Settlement in Ireland:",
          "text": "Another chamber or building and a bretesche lay outside this gate . A cruck-built wooden grange and a byre lay in the lower courtyard of the castle (seemingly a reference to the bailey). A masonry-built hall was also standing ...",
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          "text": "... still further west , upon which a bretesche would rest overhanging the entrance. The keep entrance was dealt with at the same time, the existing ribbed inner portion, replacing the Norman entrance which has entirely disappeared."
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