'Battlement' definitions:
Definition of 'battlement'
From: WordNet
noun
A rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns [syn: battlement, crenelation, crenellation]
Definition of 'Battlement'
From: GCIDE
- Battlement \Bat"tle*ment\ (-ment), n. [OE. batelment; cf. OF. bataillement combat, fr. batailler, also OF. bastillier, bateillier, to fortify. Cf. Battle, n., Bastile, Bastion.] (Arch.) (a) One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications. (b) pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Battlement'
From: Easton
- Battlement a parapet wall or balustrade surrounding the flat roofs of the houses, required to be built by a special law (Deut. 22:8). In Jer. 5:10, it denotes the parapet of a city wall.
Synonyms of 'battlement'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abatis,
- advanced work,
- balistraria,
- bank,
- banquette,
- barbed-wire entanglement,
- barbican,
- barricade,
- barrier,
- bartizan,
- bastion,
- breastwork,
- bulwark,
- casemate,
- castellation,
- cheval-de-frise,
- circumvallation,
- contravallation,
- counterscarp,
- crenel,
- curtain,
- demibastion,
- dike,
- drawbridge,
- earthwork,
- embrasure,
- enclosure,
- entanglement,
- escarp,
- escarpment,
- fence,
- fieldwork,
- fortalice,
- fortification,
- glacis,
- loophole,
- lunette,
- machicolation,
- mantelet,
- merlon,
- mound,
- outwork,
- palisade,
- parados,
- parapet,
- portcullis,
- postern gate,
- rampart,
- ravelin,
- redan,
- redoubt,
- sally port,
- scarp,
- sconce,
- stockade,
- tenaille,
- vallation,
- vallum,
- work