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单词 crenel
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crenelcrenellen.

/ˈkrɛnəl//kriːˈnɛl/
Forms: Middle English (plural creneuls, creneaux), 1700s–1800s crennel, 1800s crenel, crenell(e.
Etymology: < Old French (12th cent.) crenel, plural creniaus (modern French créneau , -eaux ). Old French variants were kernel , karnel , whence also English carnel n.1, kernel n.2. The French word is apparently diminutive of cren , cran notch (of which however Littré has no example before 15th cent.); see crena n. and compare cranny n.1
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 n. In plural = Battlements, embattled parapet.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [noun] > battlements > embrasure
kernel?c1225
cornelc1300
carnelc1320
cornerc1400
vent1429
loop1477
crenel1481
gun-hole1532
spike1577
cannonery1598
spike-hole1598
casemate1611
porthole1637
skitegate1677
embrasure1702
crenelet1860
port1946
1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) 179 It shold be fasted to the creneaux of the walle, with good and stronge crochettes of yron.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) cxx. 181 Thenne cam to the creneuls, and put oute his heede and called his peple.
1774 T. West Antiq. Furness (1805) 371 The walls..in most castles, were topped by a parapet, and a kind of embrasures called crennels.
1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain iii. ix. 140 Crenell and parapet appear.
1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose ii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. IV. 32 The..palisades should be artificially framed with re-entering angles and loop-holes, or crenelles, for musketry.
1877 H. Dixon Diana, Lady Lyle II. vii. i. 174 A high curtain of masonry, pierced by many windows, some mere crennels of defence, others embayed and mullioned.
2. Botany. = crenation n., crenature n.
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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [noun] > part or side of
backsidec1392
cut1563
purl1626
ambitient1657
unguicle1657
verge1704
sinus1753
pagina1832
blade1835
crenel1835
biforine1842
underleaf1873
tentacle1875
bullation1882
leaf skin1974
the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [noun] > notch or indentation
incision1578
incisure1597
crenature1815
emargination1831
crenel1835
crenation1846
crenulation1846
1835 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) I. 271 When the..teeth are rounded, they become crenels.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

crenelv.

/ˈkrɛnəl/
Forms: Also crennel.
Etymology: < French créneler, < Old French crenel : see crenel n. Compare the parallel forms carnel n.1, kernel n.2
rare.
transitive.
a. To embattle, to crenellate; also figurative. See also crenelled adj.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > wall [verb (transitive)] > furnish with embrasures
kernel1377
carnilate1577
crenellate1851
kernellate1851
embrasure1853
crenel1883
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 14646 Castels..bretaxed and carneled.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 753 Licence to fortifie and Kernel his mansion house.]
1840 R. Browning Sordello i. 284 The runnel slipped, Elate with rains..He..yet trod..on the stubs of living rock Ages ago it crenneled.
1883 H. E. Jerningham Norham Castle 170 A special licence..for the towers to be crennelled.
b. To indent the edge of (a coin). Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > money > coining > coin (money) [verb (transitive)] > specific processes
reduce1581
crenel1697
mill1724
crenate1868
to strike up1883
1697 J. Evelyn Numismata vii. 225 Crenneling of the small and thinner [moneys].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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