Bar'tizan, a small, overhanging, battlemented, parapet turret, projecting from the angles on the top of a tower. It was generally pierced with apertures for cross-bowmen, called balistraria. Dr Murray in his Dictionary says that the word is a spurious 'modern antique, which had no existence in the times to which it is attributed. It was apparently first used by Sir Walter Scott, and was due to a misconception of a 17th-century illiterate Scotch spelling, bcrtiscne, for 'bertising'—i.e. bertising, or bratticing, a brattice being a battlemented parapet, originally of wood, and temporary.
Bartizan.