crenel
- noun
- /ˈkrɛnəl/
- Specialized
:
merlón
- The walls whispered dryly behind them; she flinched at the crash as a crenel broke off and plummeted.
Examples
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They intermittently duck behind the crenels in between rifle shots.
Fiction book (1998) -
A bullet ricochets off the crenel.
Fiction book (1998) -
Other legionnaires leave their crenels.
Fiction book (1998) -
Through crenels in the parapet, I stare at the desert.
Fiction book (2001) -
Bullet hits ricochet off their crenels, pelting them with sharp particles of debris.
Fiction book (1998) -
From its battlements, through its widest crenels, poured a waterfall.
Fiction book (1996) -
It stretched up and up, a thousand walls within other walls, all with wide merlons, narrow crenels, and thousands of turrets and balconied minarets.
Fiction book (1999) -
The gate, along with the chimney pots that serrated the sky like crenels and merlons, evoked for Claude the image of a sprawling castle.
Fiction book (1992) -
The soldiers took cover behind the crenels to shield themselves from enemy fire.
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She observed the landscape through the crenels of the ancient castle's battlements.
Synonyms
An open gap in a castle wall between raised parts used for shooting or looking
Surface Forms
Etymology
Crenel comes from an old French word crenel meaning 'notch' or cut, like the gaps made in a castle wall; these gaps let soldiers look and fire while staying partly protected, which is why a crenel is the open space between the raised parts of a battlement.
