Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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crenellation | Yes | No | No | No |
crenelle | Yes | No | No | No |
crenellation (noun) | crenelle (noun) |
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the action of constructing ramparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows | a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement |
a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns | 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.) |