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