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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The space between merlons in a crenelated battlement.

   "Near-synonym: embrasure (sometimes hypernymous technically)"

2. 2
   a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement wordnet
3. 3
   one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) wordnet

Verb

1. 1
   supply with battlements wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

battlementcrenationcrenaturecrenelatecrenellatecrenelle

Example

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"Near-synonym: embrasure (sometimes hypernymous technically)"

Etymology

From Old French crenel ( > modern French créneau), diminutive of cren (“notch”).

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