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A wooden partition in a mine.
(quote-journal)|location=London|publisher=Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswode,(nb...), for of Public Sector Information|Her Majesty’s Stationery Office|date=28 February 1872|volume=XVI|page=58|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=mhcTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA58|oclc=41427157|passage=A practice then prevailed of blasting without nicking the side of the place which still continues and of conducting the current of air too far by means of brattice, to both of which practices I raised a strong objection. They admitted their inability to make the men nick the coal as they formerly did and thought the application of brattice could not be properly defined, but that it should be left to the discretion of the manager of each particular mine as to the distance openings should be made apart between the intake and return air courses.
A wooden structure used for attack or defence, such as an archery tower, or a penthouse built over the entry to a castle for archers to shoot from.

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{{quote-book|en|year=2016|author=Peter Connolly; John Gillingham; John Lazenby|title=The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Warfare|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135936815
To divide into partitions of this kind.