embrasure : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: embrasure	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for embrasure
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
embrasure n an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through Synonym(s): port, embrasure, porthole
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Embrasure \Em*bra"sure\ (?; 135), n. [See {Embrace}.] An embrace. [Obs.] [bd]Our locked embrasures.[b8] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Embrasure \Em*bra"sure\ (277), n. [F., fr. embraser, perh. equiv. to [82]braser to widen an opening; of unknown origin.] 1. (Arch.) A splay of a door or window. Apart, in the twilight gloom of a window's embrasure, Sat the lovers. --Longfellow. 2. (Fort.) An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a crenelle. See Illust. of {Casemate}.