different between crewel vs crenel

English

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Alternative forms

• cruel

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?u?.?l/, /?k?u?l/
• Homophone: cruel

Noun

crewel (countable and uncountable, plural crewels)

1. Worsted yarn, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.

Translations

Verb

crewel (third-person singular simple present crewels, present participle crewelling or (US) creweling, simple past and past participle crewelled or (US) creweled)

1. (transitive) To make (embroidery) using the crewel method.

Middle English

Adjective

crewel

1. Alternative form of cruel

English

Alternative forms

• crenelle

Etymology

From Old French crenel ( > modern French créneau), diminutive of cren (“notch”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??n?l/

Noun

crenel (plural crenels or creneaux)

1. The space between merlons in a crenelated battlement.
   • 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p. 44:

     They would wake Lord Bolton and search Harrenhal from crenel to cellar, and when they did they would find the map and the dagger missing […].

Translations

Old French

Noun

crenel m (oblique plural creneaus or creneax or creniaus or creniax or crenels, nominative singular creneaus or creneax or creniaus or creniax or crenels, nominative plural crenel)

1. Alternative form of kernel