parapet Definition
para·pet (par′ə pet′, -pət)
noun
- a wall or bank used to screen troops from frontal enemy fire, sometimes placed along the top of a rampart
- a low wall or railing, as along a balcony
Etymology: Fr < It parapetto < parare, to guard (< L, prepare) + petto, breast < L pectus
parapet Related Forms
par′a·pet′ed adjective
parapet Synonyms
parapet Usage Examples
Converse of object
- crenellate: Nave south side Nave north side The crenelated parapet on the nave dates from the 17th century.
- pierce: The top of the tower is a pierced Gothic parapet with eight pinnacles.
- mount: The procedure is to mount the parapet and make way down being careful not to slip especially when wet, up to the wire.
- replace: In Victorian times replacing the stone parapets with cast iron, themselves replaced with masonry in the 1920's.
- hit: However, there must be many bridges where it would be impossible to hit a parapet at such a high speed.
Adjective modifier
- battlemented: Battlemented parapet with a molded string course below which is a frieze similar to that on the north aisle.
- embattled: There is an embattled parapet around the slate roof.
- balustraded: The two gabled outer bays are joined at eaves level by a chunky balustraded parapet.
- castellated: West wall: inside the west door is an inner paneled porch with a castellated parapet.
- plain: The transept has plain buttresses and a plain parapet.
- low: The stairs ended at a trapdoor that led out onto the stone flagged roof of the tower surrounded by a low parapet.
Modifies a noun
- gutter: For valley and parapet gutter both results for straight and tapered outlets are given.
- wall: The new parapet walls can just about be made out in the center of the picture, to the right of the road.
Noun used with modifier
- bridge: The trackbed lies in a cutting beyond the bridge parapet which can clearly be seen in the center of the shot.
- brick: Before: The golf course access bridge with brick parapet.
- stone: To your left you can see the stone parapets of a bridge.
- roof: Large decorative urns that once graced the roof parapet in the early 1900s, disappeared long ago.
Preposition: of
- trench: He is firing through a pipe which will go through the parapet of the trench.
- bridge: The rig crashed over the parapet of the narrow bridge, falling 35 feet.
Preposition: with
pinnacle: The top of the tower is a pierced Gothic parapet with eight pinnacles.
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