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battlement
(encz) | battlement,cimbuří n: Zdeněk Brož |
Battlement
(gcide) | Battlement \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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battlement
(wn) | battlement
n 1: a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular
gaps for firing arrows or guns [syn: battlement,
crenelation, crenellation] |
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battlemented
(encz) | battlemented,opatřený cimbuřím Zdeněk Brož |
Battlement
(gcide) | Battlement \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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Battlemented
(gcide) | Battlemented \Bat"tle*ment*ed\ (-m[e^]nt*[e^]d), a.
Having battlements.
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A battlemented portal. --Sir W.
Scott.
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Embattlement
(gcide) | Embattlement \Em*bat"tle*ment\, n.
1. An intended parapet; a battlement.
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2. The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of
battlements.
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battlemented
(wn) | battlemented
adj 1: protected with battlements or parapets with indentations
or embrasures for shooting through
2: having or resembling repeated square indentations like those
in a battlement; "a crenelated molding" [syn: embattled,
battlemented, castled, castellated] |
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