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Battlement

Battlement Meaning & Definition
Battlement Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Battlement?

[n] a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns

Synonyms | Synonyms for Battlement: crenelation | crenellation

Related Terms | Find terms related to Battlement: abatis | advanced work | balistraria | bank | banquette | barbed-wire entanglement | barbican | barricade | barrier | bartizan | bastion | breastwork | bulwark | casemate | castellation | cheval-de-frise | circumvallation | contravallation | counterscarp | crenel | curtain | demibastion | dike | drawbridge | earthwork | embrasure | enclosure | entanglement | escarp | escarpment | fence | fieldwork | fortalice | fortification | glacis | loophole | lunette | machicolation | mantelet | merlon | mound | outwork | palisade | parados | parapet | portcullis | postern gate | rampart | ravelin | redan | redoubt | sally port | scarp | sconce | stockade | tenaille | vallation | vallum | work

See Also | bulwark | crenel | crenelle | fort | fortress | merlon | rampart | wall

Battlement In Webster's Dictionary

\Bat"tle*ment\ (-ment), n. [OE. batelment; cf. OF. bataillement combat, fr. batailler, also OF. bastillier, bateillier, to fortify. Cf. {Battle}, n., {Bastile}, {Bastion}.] (Arch.) (a) One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications. (b) pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.

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