different between crenellation vs battlement

English

Etymology

From crenellate +? -ion (suffix indicating an action or process, or its result). Crenellate is derived from French créneler (“to form the shape of a crenel, crenellate”), from Old French crenel (“crenel, embrasure”) (modern French créneau) (from Latin *cr?nella, diminutive of cr?na (“incision; notch”); compare Old French cren (“a notch”)) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first conjugation verbs).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??n?l?e???n/, /?k??n??le???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??n??le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: cre?nel?lat?ion

Noun

crenellation (countable and uncountable, plural crenellations)

1. A pattern along the top of a parapet (fortified wall), most often in the form of multiple, regular, rectangular spaces in the top of the wall, through which arrows or other weaponry may be shot, especially as used in medieval European architecture.
2. The act of crenellating; adding a top row that looks like the top of a medieval castle.

Alternative forms

• crenelation

Hypernyms

• battlement

Related terms

• crenel
• crenellate
• licence to crenellate

Translations

References

Further reading

• crenellation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• centrolineal

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [?bæt??m?nt]

Noun

battlement (plural battlements)

1. 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.
2. Any high wall for defense.
3. (poetic) The towering roof of heaven.

Synonyms

• (sense, indented parapet) crenellation

Derived terms

• battlemented

Translations

References

• battlement in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.