crenellationcrenelationn.
/krɛnɛˈleɪʃən/ 1. The action of crenellating or providing with battlements; the condition of being crenellated.
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battling1506
crenellation1874
1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (1875) III. xxi. 536 The fortification or crenellation of these houses or castles.
2. concrete. Embattled work; a battlement.
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kernel?c1225
abattlementc1400
battlementc1400
battling1430
embattlea1547
embattlementa1552
crenellation1849
castellation1861
1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons xii. lxiv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 430/1 Octavo ramparts, flanked with quarto crenellations.
1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. v. 294 The Scots laird..perched projecting crenelations or bastions on the top corners of his tower.
3. A notch or indentation. (In modern dictionaries.)
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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