crenel
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The battlements bristled with spears and swords and scorpions, there was an archer at every crenel and arrow slit, the drawbridge was up, the portcullis down, the gates closed and barred.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
On the inside of the rampart and in the wide crenel between two upthrust merlons.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
He knocked aside the wall of fresh-fallen snow filling up the crenel and leaned out between the merlons.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
A bolt passed within a foot of him, shattering the crust of frozen snow that had plugged the closest crenel.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Leaning into a crenel between two square merlons, Simon took a deep breath of the mild spring air.
From The Saracen: Land of the Infidel by Shea, Robert
Over it there is sprung a high-arched, rough stone bridge, with crenelled walls, quite as artistic in its way as may be found in pictures of ancient English brook-crossings.
From Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Thwaites, Reuben Gold
They got within thirty yards of the walls when they found themselves in front of a crenelled outwork with a deep ditch before it.
From The Three Midshipmen by Prout, Victor
“Quien viva!” came the sonorous hail of a sentinel from the crenelled parapet.
From The Tiger Hunter by Reid, Mayne
A little farther off, on the left, stood the black pile of the Casa Mata, the arsenal, crenelled for musketry, and surrounded by a quadrangular field work.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
