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crenelate
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.
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To indent; to notch; as, a crenelated leaf.
Crenelated molding (Arch.), a kind of indented molding used in Norman buildings.
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 formes of the past participle adjective included carneled.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To furnish with crenelles. 2 To indent; to notch.
WordNet
adj. having repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding" [syn: embattled, crenelated, crenellated, crenellate, indented]
v. supply with battlements [syn: crenel, crenellate]
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.