parapet

How To Use parapet In A Sentence

• Upon these, and along the walls, which in most castles were topped by a parapet and a kind of embrasure called crennels, the defenders of the castle were stationed during a siege, and from thence discharged arrows, darts, stones, and every kind of annoyance they could procure, upon their enemies. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)
• Hastening across the parapet from the opposite direction was a bowman as young as the man he'd shot. HERE BE DRAGONS
• You were not able to check whether there were any splits or tears in the lead in the parapet gutter?
• He would not have stuck his head above the parapet without some form of political cover, never mind without a possible financial backer behind the scenes.
• One day she sat musing by a forest fountain, dressed in a robe of yellow silk, wantonly plucking the flowers which grew on the mossy parapet of the spring and binding them into a bouquet for the Clerk of Mezlean.
• They sat at one of the better tables up beside the parapet overlooking the courtyard.
• Species are diagnosed on the basis of carinal height and the nature (height, symmetry, completeness) and number (zero, one, or two) of flanking rows or parapets.
• My first sight of a trench was of two greasy clay walls with a parapet on the top and duckboards on the bottom.
• The gun is placed under a vault whose generatrices are at right angles to the line of fire (Fig. 8), and which contains a niche that traverses the parapet. Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886
• Admirably willing to raise his head above the parapet and defend his corner, the barrel-chested midfielder might even be said to epitomise Martin O'Neill's side.