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battlement::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | crenelation, crenellation |
| Type of | bulwark, rampart, wall |
Examples of battlement
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He emerges on a battlement where Anna Fang and Valentine are locked in a sword fight.
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Battlement Mesa does not look like a good place to drill for natural gas.
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Over the battlement of the castle paces a golden wolf with a blue tongue.
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Miriam and I haven't had to move into some battlement in Whitehall.
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Castellation redirected to battlement even though castellated didn't.
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Battlement Mesa's mix of retirees and young families fits the bill.
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They are actually defending the battlement, but they have others.
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The building is crowned with projecting crenellated battlement, supported by small arches and corbels.
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After lunch, I snuck off to find Fort Warwick, a 300-year old English battlement built to defend her pirate colony.
From the independent.co.uk
- A rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns
- (battlemented) protected with battlements or parapets with indentations or embrasures for shooting through
- (battlemented) embattled: having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding"
- A battlement (also called a crenellation) in defensive architecture such as that of city walls or castles, comprises a parapet (i.e. a short wall), in which portions have been cut out at intervals to allow the discharge of arrows or other missiles. ...
- In fortification: an indented parapet, formed by a series of rising members called cops or merlons, separated by openings called crenelles or embrasures, the soldier sheltering himself behind the merlon while he fires through the embrasure or through a loophole in the battlement; Any high wall ...
- (BATTLEMENTS) The notched top (crenellated parapet) of a defensive wall, with open spaces (crenels) for firing weapons.
- (Battlements) Parapet along the top of walls where soldiers could stand and fire at attackers. Also known as crenellations.
- (Battlements) The working defenses atop a castle wall, consisting of a Wall Walk fronted by a Parapet (crenelated), often corbelled out to allow for machicolations, or in earlier castles protected by a Hoarding.
- (battlements) a parapet with an alternately raised and lowered outline
