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Definition of Battlements

Battlement
Battlement Bat"tle*ment (-ment), n. [OE. batelment; cf. OF. bataillement combat, fr. batailler, also OF. bastillier, bateillier, to fortify. Cf. Battle, n., Bastile, Bastion.] (Arch.) (a) One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications. (b) pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.

Meaning of Battlements from wikipedia

- building might be designed and built with battlements, or a manor house might be fortified by adding battlements, where no parapet previously existed, or...
- Flags on the Battlements (Russian: Флаги на башнях, romanized: Flagi na bashnyakh) is a novella by Anton Makarenko, written in 1938 and published the...
- A Vision of Battlements is a 1965 novel by Anthony Burgess based on his experiences during World War II in Gibraltar, where he was serving with the British...
- intervals and is crowned with battlements. There are two-store**** watch-towers at the corners, which are crowned by battlements and merlons. The fort has...
- part of battlements, merlons were used in fortifications for millennia. The best-known examples appear on medieval buildings, where battlements, though...
- battered the walls, and the long poles with their iron sickles tore off the battlements, they tried to invent machines to baffle them, letting down huge m****es...
- Complex (Smithsonian trinomial: 35WS274), also known locally as the Mosier Battlements, is an archaeological site near Mosier, Oregon, United States. This collection...
- Sheesh Mahal, Jahangir Mahal, a temple, gardens and pavilions. The battlements of the fort have ornamentation. Notable architectural features in the...
- since the period under study. This allowed him to recreate a plan of the battlements with nearly no excavation. He used this technique to make a scale plan...
- by elements such as triangular or rectangular openings (furjat) and battlements (shurfat) as well as peepholes projecting outward from the main façade...