Crossword clues for crenellation
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.]
Wiktionary
n. A pattern along the top of a parapet (fortified wall), most often in the form of multiple, regular, rectangular spaces in the top of the wall, through which arrows or other weaponry may be shot, especially as used in medieval European architecture.
WordNet
n. a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns [syn: battlement, crenelation]
the action of constructing rampparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows [syn: crenelation]
Usage examples of "crenellation".
The rain was pouring like a river from the crenellations, from the tiles, from the gutters, from the dolphins that topped every roof as a protection against fire.
Another head appeared over the crenellations, helmeted properly, unlike the others.
Torches burned at set points along the crenellations, and now and then Gavril saw one of the sentries pause to warm his hands by the blaze.
It looked as if some great beast had taken a bite out of the crenellations along the tower top, and spit the rubble across the bog.
At the east side of the hill, he came to a broken wall, with blast-broken crenellations like gray dragon's teeth rising from a bleached and monstrous lower jawbone.