"Embattail" is a word in ENGLISH
To furnish with battlements; to fortify as with
battlements.
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
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A squad car driver was covering a quiet beat out in the sticks when he was amazed to find a former lieutenant on the police force covering the beat.He stopped the car and asked, "Why, Irish Mike, this wouldn't be your new beat out here in the sticks, would it?""That it is, "Irish Mike replied grimly, "ever since I arrested the judge on his way to the masquerade ball.""You mean you pinched his honor?" asked Pat."How was I to know that his convict suit was only a costume?" demanded Mike."Well," mused Pat, "there's a lesson in this somewhere.""That there is," replied Irish Mike...." 'Tis wise never to book a judge by his cover."
pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on …
Read the complete definitionOne of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.
Read the complete definitionHaving battlements.
Read the complete definitionCarved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet.
Read the complete definitionFurnished with turrets and battlements, like a castle; built in the style of a castle.
Read the complete definitionAn embrasure or indentation in a battlement; a loophole in a fortress; an indentation; a notch. See Merlon, and Illust. …
Read the complete definitionTo furnish with battlements.
Read the complete definitionHaving the edge broken like battlements; -- said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like.
Read the complete definitionHaving indentations like a battlement.
Read the complete definitionAn intended parapet; a battlement.
Read the complete definitionThe fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.
Read the complete definitionIn old Scotch law. A fortalice; a castle. Properly a house or tower which has a battlement or a ditch …
Read the complete definitionAn opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof …
Read the complete definitionOne of the solid parts of a battlemented parapet; a battlement. See Illust. of Battlement.
Read the complete definitionA battlement in ancient fortifications with interstices for firing through.
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