| 单词 | machecoling | 
| 释义 | † machecolingn. Architecture (chiefly Scottish). Obsolete.   = machicolation n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > 			[noun]		 > machicolation machecolinga1460 machicolation1773 machicoulis1793 a1460    Knyghthode & Bataile 		(Pembr. Cambr. 243)	 2285  				For firing of the yatis make obstacle... A portcolys to plumpe adoun... The machcoling may thenne Chastise hem that thei shal nat sle ner brenne. 1471    in  Rep. MSS D. Milne Home 		(1902)	 182  				Ipsam turrim..muris et fossis cum le barmking et machcoling fortificandi. 1500    in  Coll. for Hist. Aberdeen & Banff 		(1843)	 318  				With power to mak thairapon irne yettis, machicolin [etc.]. 1508    in  M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum 		(1908)	 I. 253  				With battelling, machcoling and all uther manner of defens and munitioun. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < | 
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