Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being castellated.
- n. The act of fortifying a house and rendering it a castle, or of giving it the appearance of a castle by providing it with battlements, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of making a building into a castle
- n. The addition of battlements to a building
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of making into a castle.
Examples
“All along the ridge the rock cropped out, bare and bleak, but broken in rough natural castellation.”
“In summer evenings Mrs. Bolam could lie and watch the sun setting behind a castellation of sloping roofs and twisting chimneys with, in the distance, the turrets of St. Pancras St.tion darkening against a flaming sky.”
“With black ribs set close about its summit, it wears rather the appearance of a colossal castellation, an enormous fort of solid masonry, than of any natural mass of rock.”
“It features a reflow-solderable edge castellation interface so the module can be incorporated in a product design without costly I / O and RF connectors.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘castellation’.
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casts
broadcast, outcast, narrowcast, castaways, Jocasta, castellation, castling, conacaste, forecasts, downcast, dodecastyle, dicast and 99 more...
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Castles and Keeps
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abutment, adulterine, allure, angle-spur, apse, arbalest, arbalestier, arbalist, arcade, arch, armoury, arrow slit and 410 more...
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Descriptives from the fantasy novel "...
The character of Smoky Barnable -- fabulous name! -- comes to marry into an eccentric & otherworldly family. The author, John Crowley, introduces you into an almost-forgotten age of handmade splend...
macadam, sclerotic, ganglia, mullion, seraphic, evanescence, tattersall, beaux-arts, trellis, hassock, figured coverlet, phthisical and 66 more...
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word set9
spongiform, stochastic, bibliobibuli, gangliest, macadamization, orchidaceous, fructiferous, phatically, persiflage, caliginous, helical, tracery and 72 more...
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chained_bear Battlements; used when implying use as a decorative feature. Aug 24, 2008