Usually means: Parapets with alternating gaps, solidifications.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. battlements: Merriam-Webster
  2. battlements: Collins English Dictionary
  3. battlements: Vocabulary.com
  4. Battlements, battlements: Wordnik
  5. battlements: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. battlements: Wiktionary
  7. battlements: Dictionary.com
  8. Battlements: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. battlements: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. battlements: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BATTLEMENTS: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Battlements: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Battlements: Encyclopedia

(Note: See battlement as well.)

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noun:  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.
noun:  Any high wall for defense.
noun:  (poetic) The towering roof of heaven.
▸ Also see battlement

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