The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word BARBICAN
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result BARBICAN
- Air a BBC broadcast on new theatre
- Arts centre’s Caribbean display lacking energy
- Short doll is able to provide defence
- Dolly girl almost is able to keep …
- Academic, principally religious writer has article for Watchtower
- Save article by writer for Arts Centre
- London complex issuing claim of competence following insult
- Stop cabin construction as a defensive post
- Tower, public house and cabin building
- Energy exhausted, Caribbean playing defence for keeps
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What does BARBICAN mean?
BARBICAN noun- A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town
- A fortress at the end of a bridge.
- An opening in the wall of a fortress through which the guns are levelled; a narrow loophole through which arrows and other missiles may be shot.
- A temporary wooden tower built for defensive purposes.