different between machicolation vs machiolate

English

Etymology

From Late Latin machicol(amentum) (“machicolation”) +? -ation (suffix indicating an action or process). Machicolamentum may be derived from Old French macher (“to chew; to crush”) (modern French mâcher) + col (“neck”) + Latin -mentum (suffix indicating an instrument or medium, or the result of something). The English word is cognate with Middle English machecolled (“having machicolations”), machecolling (“act of constructing machicolation; the openings making up the machicolation”), Middle French machecoleis (modern French mâchicoulis (“machicolation”)), Latin machecollum (“machicolation”), Occitan machacol.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??t??k??le??(?)n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /m??t??k??le???n/
• Hyphenation: ma?chi?col?a?tion

Noun

machicolation (countable and uncountable, plural machicolations)

1. (architecture) An opening between corbels that support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, of a fortified building from which missiles can be shot or heated items dropped upon assailants attacking the base of the walls.

   Synonym: machicoulis
2. (architecture) A projecting parapet with a series of such openings.

Hyponyms

• box machicolation
• slit machicolation, slot machicolation

Coordinate terms

• loophole
• murder hole

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References

Further reading

• machicolation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• machicolation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Adjective

machiolate (not comparable)

1. (rare, of a parapet) machicolated
   • 1876, The Ancient Monuments of Ireland in Freeman's Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1932), page 5:

     The square tower, with its machiolate battlement — all that is left of the castle has been visited by pilgrims from every clime.

Related terms

• machicolate
• machicolation