Merlon Definition

mûrlən
noun
The solid part of a battlement or parapet, between two openings, or crenels.
Webster's New World

(architecture, military) Any of the projections between the embrasures of a battlement.

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Other Word Forms of Merlon

Noun

Singular:
merlon
Plural:
merlons

Origin of Merlon

  • French from Italian merlone augmentative of merlo battlement perhaps from Medieval Latin merulus from Latin merle (from their imagined similarity to blackbirds sitting on a wall)

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

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