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Meanings of crenellation in English
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
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.
Usage of crenellation in English
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.
6
But the red fire-glow shone crisply through the crenellations on those bastions.
7
The light of torches from the courtyard below flickered upon the keep's crenellations.
8
Briefly, she glimpsed the house: ivied windows, crenellations, the stubby shape of a tower.
9
A wave smashed into the battered crenellations, overtopped easily and kept coming at them.
10
He cast a glance over the crenellations as he walked.
11
The fort consisted merely of a circular wall, breast high, with embrasures or crenellations.
12
Cheesecake crenellations, battlements with machicolations, moat and drawbridge and turrets.
13
Ashlin stood by the crenellations, silhouetted against the pewter-bright sky.
14
Shit, Comrade Major, two thirds of the bastard's head is covered by the crenellations.
15
I will talk with them. She gripped the crenellations and stared out beyond the Nile.
16
Silk shrugged, leant his weight against the stone crenellations.
Frequent collocations
Crenellation through the time