merlon

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And now the mouth of the Sweet Waters, shallowed by a wide extended osier bank, came into view; and the Castle was visible from base to upper merlon, the donjon, in relief against the blackened sky, rising more ghostly than ever.

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  1. noun A solid portion between two crenels in a battlement or crenelated wall.

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  • The trees on the hills behind the Castle were bending and bowing; and not merely around the boat, but far as could be seen the surface of the ancient channel was a-shirr and a-shatter under beating of advance gusts And now the mouth of the Sweet Waters, shallowed by a wide extended osier bank, came into view; and the Castle was visible from base to upper merlon, the donjon, in relief against the blackened sky, rising more ghostly than ever. —  The Prince of India — Volume 01
  • "Higher, men!" shouted the Genoese, from a merlon. —  The Prince of India — Volume 02
  • Simon pulled on one end of the rope, and it snaked around the merlon and came rippling down to him. —  The Saracen: Land of the Infidel
  • Something whizzed past Simon's head and struck the brick merlon beside him. —  The Saracen: Land of the Infidel
  • "Will you give him his answer, my Lord Provost," she said, with a smile, and Francesco, stepping forward and leaning on a merlon of that embattled wall, obeyed her. —  Love-at-Arms
 

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  1. French, from Italian merlone, augmentative of merlo, battlement, perhaps from Medieval Latin merulus, from Latin, merle (from their imagined similarity to blackbirds sitting on a wall).

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  1. from French merlon = Spanish merlon = Portuguese merlão, a merlon, from Italian merlo, a merlon, perhaps from Late Latin *mœrulus, diminutive of mœrus, murus, wall: see mure.
 

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