Battlement Definition

bătl-mənt
battlements
noun
battlements
A notched parapet built on top of a wall, with alternating merlons and crenels for decoration or defense.
American Heritage
A parapet with open spaces for shooting, built on top of a castle wall, tower, or fort.
Webster's New World
An architectural decoration like this.
Webster's New World

In fortification: an indented parapet, formed by a series of rising members called cops or merlons, separated by openings called crenelles or embrasures, the soldier sheltering himself behind the merlon while he fires through the embrasure or through a loophole in the battlement.

Wiktionary

Any high wall for defense.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Battlement

Noun

Singular:
battlement
Plural:
battlements

Origin of Battlement

  • Middle English batelment alteration (influenced by batel battle) of Old French batillement tower, turret from bastille bastille

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French bataillement, earlier bastillement (“fortification”), from bastillier (“to fortify, to equip with battlements”), from bastille (“fortress”) (see bastion).

    From Wiktionary

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