battlement

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Etymology

From Middle English batilment, from Old French bataillement, earlier bastillement (“fortification”), from bastillier (“to fortify, to equip with battlements”), from bastille (“fortress”) (see bastion).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [ˈbætəɫmənt]

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

battlement (plural battlements)

1. In fortification: an indented parapet, formed by a series of rising members called cops or merlons, separated by openings called crenelles or embrasures, the soldier sheltering himself behind the merlon while he fires through the embrasure or through a loophole in the battlement.
2. Any high wall for defense.
3. (poetic) The towering roof of heaven.

Synonyms

• (sense, indented parapet) crenellation

Derived terms

• battlemented

Translations

indented parapet formed by a series of rising members

Bulgarian: зъбер (bg) (zǎber) Catalan: cresteria f Chinese: Mandarin: 防衛牆 / 防卫墙 (zh) (fángwèiqiáng), 城垛 (zh) (chéngduǒ) Czech: cimbuří n Danish: krenelering, brystværn, kamtak Dutch: bolwerk (nl) n Esperanto: krenelo Finnish: sakaramuuri French: rempart (fr) m German: Befestigung (de) f, Festungsmauer (de) f, Mauerzinne f, Zinne (de) f Greek: πολεμίστρα (el) f (polemístra) Ancient: ἔπαλξις f (épalxis) Ido: krenelo (io) Italian: parapetto (it) m Macedonian: градобран m (gradobran) Norwegian: Bokmål: brystvern n Persian: کنگره (fa) (kongere) Polish: blanki (pl) nvir, krenelaż (pl) m Portuguese: ameia (pt) Russian: стена́ с бойницами f (stená s bojnicami) Serbo-Croatian: grudobran (sh) m, krunište (sh) n Spanish: multiple: almenaje (es) m / almenado (es) m, almena (es) f Swedish: krenelering (sv) c Turkish: mazgallı siper (tr), siper (tr)

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “battlement”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.