merlon

• One that I took to be an officer stood in a crenel with one foot up on a merlon, leaning on his knee, watching casually. —  Shadow Games
• The leap through the window to the parapet, the mad race across battlements and roofs when the fear of falling froze her, the reckless descent of a rope bound to a merlon -- he went down almost at a run, his captive folded limply over his brawny shoulder -- all this was a befuddled tangle in the Devi's mind. —  Conan the Adventurer
• Then he vanished behind the merlon, and none too soon, for at least one bowman within the stockade had been watching the same serrated outline, and his arrow struck the edge of the embrasure, and stuck there quivering. —  The Virgin In The Ice
• The leap through the window to the parapet, the mad race across battlements and roofs when the fear of falling froze her, the reckless descent of a rope bound to a merlon - he went down almost at a run, his captive folded limply over his brawny shoulder - all this was a befuddled tangle in the Devi's mind. —  The Conan Chronicles
• Looping his rope around a merlon, he scrambled easily down onto the tiles and pulled the rope down after him. —  Nightside The Long Sun

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