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Meanings of crenelation in anglès
A rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns.
Synonyms
Examples for "battlement"
Examples for "battlement"
1
And in long perspective on either hand stretched the battlement of cliff.
2
This one gave the battlement, that the pinnacle, the other the arch.
3
Scant moments later, Lucius was on the battlement, looking to the north.
4
Its summit of tower, watchtower and battlement, glimmers faintly in the moonlight.
5
Borenson peered down through a broken battlement to the scene directly below.
1
See the crenellation at the edge.
2
He had heard that speculators and contractors were beginning to build apartment buildings and houses in every mossy crenellation of Oahu.
3
The blue drafter was ducked behind a crenellation, popping up to throw death down on the men below and ducking down again.
4
The hunter leader marched up a stone ramp onto a crenellation in the flower-bedecked wall and pushed himself gracefully out over the steam-filled abyss.
5
As his torchflame carved sight out of shadow, Leferic saw a single man standing at the wall with a bow, one foot on a crenellation.
Usage of crenelation in anglès
1
Samcadaris was standing on a wooden platform that allowed him to see over the crenelation.
2
They rushed the lightly armed Dimernesti and in short order pushed them back over the crenelations.
3
Salty rainwater pooled on the stone parapet, pouring off the wall through small openings in the crenelations.
4
You remember, when you had the wall built, I advised you not to put those open crenelations on top.
5
The mustardy brick crenelations of the lookout-tower didn't fit the landscape; the lack of feng-shui contributed to my ill-ease.
6
Two score young elves, newly pressed into the depleted ranks of the Speaker's host, stood behind the crenelations that protected the parapet.