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.
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Battlements
Synonyms for "battlements" (4 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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Noun(1 words)
decorative battlements
Related words (2)
Noun(2 words)
merlonsornamental crenellations
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8 entriescrenelcrenellationdecorative crenellationembrasuregothic crenellationmerlonmock battlementroof battlement
Collocations
6 entriescastle battlementscrenellated parapetdefensive architectureembrasure openinggothic crenellationmerlon block
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2 entriesSample sentences
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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.
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Several heavy stones were hurled from the mouldering battlements into the roaring sea beneath.
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King Thomas and Queen Mary played chess every night in their magnificent castle with four towers and many battlements.
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