单词 | crenellate |
释义 | crenellatecrenelatev. transitive. To furnish with battlements, to embattle; to furnish with embrasures or loopholes. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > wall [verb (transitive)] > furnish with embrasures kernel1377 carnilate1577 crenellate1851 kernellate1851 embrasure1853 crenel1883 1851 T. H. Turner Some Acct. Domest. Archit. I. 157 (note) Laurence de Ludlow had licence to crenellate his mansion of Stoke-Say. 1875 C. Clery Minor Tactics xvii. 252 Walls that have been loopholed or crenelated, afford material aid. Derivatives ˈcrenellated adj. (also crenelated) embattled; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [adjective] > having embrasures carneledc1330 corneledc1330 kernelled1706 crenated1822 crenellated1823 crenelled1832 kernellated1861 embrasured1877 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Crenellated parapet (Fort.). 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. iv. vii. 301 Crenellated castles. 1869 tr. Lenormant's Anc. Hist. East I. iv. iv. 459 The roofs of Assyrian edifices were flat and terraced, surrounded by a crenelated battlement. 1881 Athenæum 4 June 754 Crenellated mountain tops half clad in snow. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < v.1823 |
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