battlement

4 definitions found

battlement - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
         [1913 Webster]

battlement - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  battlement
      n 1: a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular
           gaps for firing arrows or guns [syn: battlement,
           crenelation, crenellation]

battlement - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Battlement
  a parapet wall or balustrade surrounding the flat roofs of the
  houses, required to be built by a special law (Deut. 22:8). In
  Jer. 5:10, it denotes the parapet of a city wall.

battlement - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "battlement":
     abatis, advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette,
     barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan,
     bastion, breastwork, bulwark, casemate, castellation,
     cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, contravallation, counterscarp,
     crenel, curtain, demibastion, dike, drawbridge, earthwork,
     embrasure, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence,
     fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, glacis, loophole, lunette,
     machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, palisade, parados,
     parapet, portcullis, postern gate, rampart, ravelin, redan,
     redoubt, sally port, scarp, sconce, stockade, tenaille, vallation,
     vallum, work