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crenellation

NOUN
  1. the action of constructing ramparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
  2. a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns

How To Use crenellation In A Sentence

  • In his piece about Awana, he writes amusingly about taking a pee and I couldn't help but recall the moment when the great man, he of pulchritudinous prose, goitred with soliped leitmotifs, crenellation and spittle, took one next to mee. AA . . . On The Piss
  • The thirteenth-century Rocca Scaligera, with its elegant crenellations and swan-filled moat, is so photogenic that it might have been built by the local tourist board.
  • You will notice the buttresses, the porch, the crenellations on the walls, and the four light mullioned windows.
  • Bullets started whizzing past him, pinging off the cast-iron crenellations. THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS
  • Consulting a copy of "The Chinese Automobile Driver's Book of Maps," Mr. Hessler decides to follow the printed crenellations of the Great Wall west into the arid heartland of the country, picking up hitchhikers as he goes. China's Long, Strange Road Trip
  • You will notice the buttresses, the porch, the crenellations on the walls, and the four light mullioned windows.
  • The garden was in a yard about thirty meters by sixty, surrounded by the towering curtain wall with inward-facing crenellations.
  • Mr. ROBERT STONE (Author, "Fun with Problems"): (Reading) Hampton County locked them down in a 19th century brick fortress of a jail, a penitential fantasy of red brick keeps and crenellations. Fiction, Long And Short, For Summertime Escapes
  • Two of the torches that illumined the battlements had been doused there, swathing the crenellations under a cloak of darkness. THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD
  • Behind the gatehouse, around the monastic cloister, there were similar conversions, the whole façade being topped with a bombastic row of crenellations (battlements).
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