machinations

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We had still two days to go, including a stop at war-torn Hvar, on whose crowning hilltop Napoleon constructed one of his behemoth castles bristling with parapets and machicolations and dungeons.

From Time Magazine Archive

The transport sphere plowed along the trench, past all the fortified city’s defenses: walls, moats, machicolations, crossbow cannons, drawbridges, bristling spear pits, bladed gates, and giant mechanical grinders.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

Arthur, who had been playing with a loose stone which he had dislodged from one of the machicolations, got tired of thinking and leaned over with the stone in his hand.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

It would be similarly unreasonable to call battlements or machicolations architectural features, so long as they consist only of an advanced gallery supported on projecting masses, with open intervals beneath for offence.

From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by Ruskin, John

The form of this lofty keep is rectangular, and the machicolations and embattlements which were added in the fifteenth century are in a perfect state of preservation.

From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Barker, Edward Harrison