Battlement
['bæt(ə)lm(ə)nt]
Definition
(noun.) a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns.
Typist: Sonia--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.
(n.) 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.
Checker: Maisie
Definition
n. a wall or parapet on the top of a building with openings or embrasures originally used only on fortifications: the towering roof of heaven —adj. Bat′tlemented fortified with battlements—also pa.p. Bat′tled (poet.).
Typist: Pearl
Examples
- I expect little aid from their hand, said Front-de-Boeuf, unless we were to hurl them from the battlements on the heads of the villains. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- As the King was walking upon the battlements one day, a woman cried out, saying, Help, my lord, O King! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- To the battlements then, said De Bracy; when didst thou ever see me the graver for the thoughts of battle? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Lifting his eye to its battlements, he cast over them a glare such as I never saw before or since. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- We sauntered carelessly and unthinkingly to the edge of the lofty battlements of the citadel, and looked down--a vision! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He ordered every horse and mule in Persia to be shorn, and pulled down the battlements of the neighbouring cities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As he came down the great staircase at last, after Mrs. Rochester had flung herself from the battlements, there was a great crash--all fell. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Gnarled and twisted trees spring from the old walls every where, and beautify and overshadow the gray battlements with a wild luxuriance of foliage. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Castle battlements arose upon my view at eight o'clock. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- You live just below--do you mean at that house with the battlements? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Edited by Andrea