Battlements

Close cling their ladders to the walls; these, fain / to clutch the doorposts, climb from floor to floor, / their right hands strive the battlements to gain, / their left with lifted shield the arrowy storm sustain.

I look around for comrades; none are near. / Some o'er the battlements leapt headlong, some / sank fainting in the flames; the final hour was come.

Several heavy stones were hurled from the mouldering battlements into the roaring sea beneath.

King Thomas and Queen Mary played chess every night in their magnificent castle with four towers and many battlements.

Wind howled along the machicolated battlements.