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battlement 音標拼音: [b'ætəlmənt] [b'ætəlmɛnt] n. 城垛,防衛墻 城垛,防衛牆 battlement n 1: a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns [ synonym: { battlement}, { crenelation}, { crenellation}] 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] 59 Moby Thesaurus words for " battlement": 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
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