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Furnish with battlements, as a castle
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crenelate
Word definitions for crenelate in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., from French créneler , from crénelé (12c.); see crenel . Sometimes also crenellate ; the double -l- seems to be from a presumed Latin *crenella as a diminutive of crena . Related: Crenelated (1823), also crenellated ; crenellation (1849). Earlier ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. supply with battlements [syn: crenel , crenellate ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To furnish with crenelles. 2 To indent; to notch.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crenelate \Cren"el*ate\ (kr?n"?l-?t or kr?"n?l-?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crenelated (-?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Crenelating (-?`t?ng).] [LL. crenellare, kernellare: cf. F. cr?neler to indent. See Crenelle .] [Written also crenellate .] To furnish with crenelles. ...
Usage examples of crenelate.
His last message said the king had granted him the right to crenelate in Wales, that he would depart within a few months to build his fortress.
They had spent many furtive hours discovering the route to usewhich entailed first slipping out their bedroom window, then around a dormer and down a rain gutter, along a wall lined with decorative, crenelated fortifications, through a loose window into an attic, and down a rope ladder that they had prehung inside a sealed-off, abandoned chimney .
As its name, Pont-Carre, indicated, it was square, and was flanked by four crenelated towers and surrounded by a broad moat.
She raised Bruno in those high-ceilinged rooms, a world far removed from that of the child's contemporaries, a Victorian world of waist-high wainscoting and flowered wallpaper and crenelated molding and footstools and mantel clocks and lace tablecloths.
My eyelids focused purple contact lenses to six magnitudes while I admired the crenelated ramparts, great turrets dour aeries, and brave pennons fluttering against a background of mountain crag and heavy, blue-black forest.