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Crenel

//ˈkɹɛnəl// noun

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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

Etymology

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

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