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crenel

VERB
  1. supply with battlements
NOUN
  1. a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement
  2. one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)

How To Use crenel In A Sentence

  • 'When I was a little girl I used to slip away from my nurse, climb to the top of my uncle's keep and sit in the crenel spaces. The Falcons of Montabard
  • Sabin paced along the wall walk and paused by the next crenel. The Falcons of Montabard
  • Isabel's small hands closed over Peter's as they pressed the silver knife into the crenellated cake. THE WHITE DOVE
  • In his piece about Awana, he writes amusingly about taking a pee and I couldn't help but recall the moment when the great man, he of pulchritudinous prose, goitred with soliped leitmotifs, crenellation and spittle, took one next to mee. AA . . . On The Piss
  • He measured out thirty paces and stared up at the crenellated boundary wall which was about twenty feet high.
  • The thirteenth-century Rocca Scaligera, with its elegant crenellations and swan-filled moat, is so photogenic that it might have been built by the local tourist board.
  • The opening was set into the side of a block-shaped structure that was buried in loose soil almost to the top of its flat, crenelated roof and decorated with a border of skulls similar to but smaller than the one they first saw. SERPENT
  • French, who had crenellated the walls, making it into a perfect redan. Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes
  • Another fellow had just appeared in the opening in the crenelation and I pushed out at him with the long impaling spear. Renegades Of Gor
  • In this weather? "and Durtal pointed at the yellow sky over which black clouds, like factory smoke, were racing, so low that the tin chimneys seemed to penetrate them and crenelate them with little spots of clarity. Là-bas
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