Associations to the word «Barmkin»

Wiktionary

BARMKIN, noun. (obsolete) The battlement on the exterior fortification of a castle in northern England and parts of Scotland; a barbican.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats