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Answer for the clue "Having squared notches ", 10 letters:
crenelated

Word definitions for crenelated in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Having crenellations or battlements 2 Having a series of square indentations alt. (en-past of: crenelate ) v (en-past of: crenelate )

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1823, past participle adjective from crenelate .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
crenelated \crenelated\ adj. having repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; as, a crenelated molding. Syn: embattled, crenelate, crenellated, crenellate, indented. having turrets and battlements in the style of a castle; -- of a building. ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding" [syn: embattled , crenelate , crenellated , crenellate , indented ] (of a building) having turrets and battlements in the style of a castle [syn: battlemented , ...

Usage examples of crenelated.

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.