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A rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns
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crenelation
Word definitions for crenelation in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns [syn: battlement , crenellation ] the action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows [syn: crenellation ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of crenellation English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crenelation \Cren`el*a"tion\ (-?"sh?n), n. The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure. [Written also crenellation .]
Usage examples of crenelation.
Standing behind me, hidden by shadow and vines and crenelation, he witnessed the bombardment of Quivalen Sath.
He needed no help getting aboard through one of the gunwale crenelations, and the fact that he brought a good deal of methane with him made no real difference.
It was then he fired the castle, and as flames licked through the stony parapets, over the crenelations and in the upper rooms of the towers, it was said that you could hear the rats screaming and a scream above those tiny fevered screams which was lost in smoke and in the sound of old dry beams collapsing.
The others ducked down, and ducked further when a bullet clipped the top of a bronze helmet barely showing over the crenelations of the defense.
The roof too was a series of flat spaces, some edged with crenelations, others flanked with high walls so that for most of the day they were filled with shadow.
She saw towers mounting spire on shattered spire, arch and corbel and crenelations as fine as hand-tooled miniatures, with woven trellises of bare branches, and above it all, the broken, arching ribs of the buttresses that were all that remained of the Palace.
All around the battlements, the projectors concealed within the gargoyles and crenelations flared and glowed violet.
The high stone walls were dotted with arrow slits and topped by machicolations, openings located beneath the wall's crenelations through which hot pitch or other unpleasant substances could be rained down onto attackers.
It was a spiraly affair, with odd, seemingly senseless crenelations and spires and a series of what might be taken for arced shark fins down the center of its back.