battlement : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: battlement	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for battlement
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
battlement n a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns Synonym(s): battlement, crenelation, crenellation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Battlement \Bat"tle*ment\ (-m[eit]nt), 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.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [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.