SARRASIN
, or Sarrazin, in Fortification, a kind of port-cullis, otherwise called a herse, which is hung with ropes over the gate of a town or fortress, to be let fall in case of a surprise.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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