About The Word Battlement
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Battlement
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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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