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crenel

[ kren-l ]

noun

  1. any of the open spaces between the merlons of a battlement.
  2. a crenature.


verb (used with object)

creneled, creneling or (especially British) crenelled, crenelling.

crenel

/ 藞kr蓻n蓹l; kr瑟藞n蓻l /

noun

  1. any of a set of openings formed in the top of a wall or parapet and having slanting sides, as in a battlement
  2. another name for crenation
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of crenel1

1475鈥85; earlier creneul, crennel < Middle French, Old French, apparently diminutive of cren notch (attested since the 15th century), Old French cran, of uncertain origin; crenate, cranny
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of crenel1

C15: from Old French, literally: a little notch, from cren notch, from Late Latin 肠谤脓苍补
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鈥淭he crenels are all flat now. It鈥檚 slippy and feels dangerous when I walk on it.鈥

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Drifts climbed the walls and filled the crenels along the battlements, white blankets covered every roof, tents sagged beneath the weight.

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On the inside of the rampart and in the wide crenel between two upthrust merlons.

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The heads were mounted between the crenels, along the top of the wall, impaled on iron spikes so they faced out over the city.

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Over it there is sprung a high-arched, rough stone bridge, with crenelled walls, quite as artistic in its way as may be found in pictures of ancient English brook-crossings.

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