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▪ I. crenel, crenelle, n.|ˈkrɛnəl, kriːˈnɛl|
Forms: 5 (pl. creneuls, creneaux), 8–9 crennel, 9 crenel, -ell(e.
[a. OF. (12th c.) crenel, pl. creniaus (mod.F. créneau, -eaux). OF. variants were kernel, karnel, whence also Eng. carnel, kernel q.v. The Fr. word is app. dim. of cren, cran notch (of which however Littré has no example before 15th c.); see crena and cf. cranny.]
1. One of the open spaces or indentations alternating with the merlons or cops of an embattled parapet, used for shooting or launching projectiles upon the enemy; an embrasure: see battlement. In pl. = Battlements, embattled parapet.
1481Caxton Godfrey 179 It shold be fasted to the creneaux of the walle, with good and stronge crochettes of yron. Ibid. cxx. 181 Thenne cam to the creneuls, and put oute his heede and called his peple. 1774T. West Antiq. Furness (1805) 371 The walls..in most castles, were topped by a parapet, and a kind of embrasures called crennels. 1813Scott Trierm. iii. ix, Crenell and parapet appear. 1819― Leg. Montrose x, The..palisades should be artificially framed with re-entering angles and loop-holes, or crenelles, for musketry. 1877Dixon Diana II. vii. i. 174 A high curtain of masonry, pierced by many windows, some mere crennels of defence, others embayed and mullioned.
2. Bot. = crenation, crenature.
1835Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) I. 271 When the..teeth are rounded, they become crenels.
▪ II. crenel, v. rare.|ˈkrɛnəl|
Also crennel.
[a. F. créneler, f. OF. crenel: see prec. Cf. the parallel forms carnel, kernel.]
trans. a. To embattle, to crenellate; also fig. See also crenelled. †b. To indent the edge of (a coin), obs.
[c1330,1377, see crenelled. 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. i. 753 Licence to fortifie and kernel his mansion house.] 1697Evelyn Numism. vii. 225 Crenneling of the small and thinner [moneys]. 1840Browning Sordello i. 284 The runnel slipped, Elate with rains..He..yet trod..on the stubs of living rock Ages ago it crenneled. 1883H. E. Jerningham Norham Castle 170 A special licence..for the towers to be crennelled. |