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Meanings of crenellate in English

Supply with battlements.

        Embattled.

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            Usage of crenellate in English
            1
            A licence to crenellate mansum infra manerium suum was granted by Edward II.
            A Pair of Blue Eyes
            2
            The tower was topped by a crenellated terrace and conical wooden roof.
            Hidden Warrior
            3
            Its crenellated tower of yellowish stone rises above a stand of date palms.
            The Irish Times
            4
            Ten paces across, the tower top was, encircled by a chest-high, crenellated wall.
            The great hunt
            5
            The crenellated roof, with its machicolations, is considered a great success.
            The Lovels of Arden
            6
            The crenellated surface of an asteroid appeared on their port camera-meters away-thenvanished.
            The Fall of Reach
            7
            Bellis saw Captain Myzovic climb the steep streets toward New Crobuzon's crenellated embassy.
            The Scar
            8
            Spectre horsemen, pale with dust, anonymous in the crenellated heat.
            Blood Meridian
            9
            From this central block rose the twin towers, ancient, crenellated, and pierced with many loopholes.
            The Hound of the Baskervilles
            10
            Oh, Vienna had a traditional pre-Engineer wall: a thin curtain of masonry, crenellated on top.
            Quicksilver
            11
            The landing itself was a narrow slab of gray stone surrounded by a crenellated barricade.
            Spellwright
            12
            The walls are crenellated, and strengthened by numerous buttresses.
            Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II / From Teheran To Yoko...
            13
            And rearing out of the centre was the dusty brown crenellated spike of Skygarden Tower.
            Broken Homes
            14
            They took it, and found themselves on a winding track that followed the crenellated coastline.
            The White Road
            15
            Andy Sanders stood behind one of these crenellated trunks.
            Under the dome: a novel
            16
            Minarets and spires and chimney stacks and crenellated openings warred with one another for space.
            Night gate
            Crenellate through the time