battlement

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Let us ascend this battlement, and throw our eyes upon the town and neighboring country.

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  1. noun A notched parapet built on top of a wall, with alternating merlons and crenels for decoration or defense. Also called embattlement.

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  • This battlement could be reached by a stair running down from a door in the outer court of the Hornburg; three flights of steps led also up on to the wall from the Deep behind; but in front it was smooth, and the great stones of it were set with such skill that no foothold could be found at their joints, and at the top they hung over like a sea-delved cliff. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • They settled into a broad embrasure between the merlons of the battlement, then Snudge covered his eyes and responded to Stergos. —  May, Julian - Boreal Moon 2 - Ironcrown Moon
  • The sky that opened beyond the battlement was open to all sides; Venera could almost imagine that she was back in the provinces of Meridian where the town wheels were small and manageable and you could fly through the free air whenever you chose. —  AnalogSFF,June2007
  • Quickly Dor walked the battlement, addressing the projecting stones of the completed portions. —  Castle Roogna
  • Our horses' hoofs soon rang under a ruined battlement, and we entered in state through the dark tunnels. —  The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II
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  1. Middle English batelment, alteration (influenced by batel, battle) of Old French batillement, tower, turret, from bastille; see bastille.

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  1. from Middle English batelment, batylment, of uncertain origin; perhaps due to an unrecorded Old French *bastillement, from bastiller, fortify: see bastile and bastiment. The word was popularly associated with battle; hence Middle English bataylynge, battlement, and battle, q. v.
 

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