Crenel

A crenel (also spelled as "crenelle" and alternatively known as a "carnel", "embrasure", "loop" or "wheeler'") is an indentation in the 15th century from Old French and comes ultimately from the Latin word crena, "notch". Its opposite is the merlon.

crenelation Related Words ParapetCastleCastles, Fortresses, and Palaces ...

battlement or crenelation : a parapet with alternating openings (embrasures) and raised sections (merlons), often used on castle walls and towers for defense purposes. Click here for pronounciation.

Crenellation - same as battlements. Traditionally seen as being defensive, recent research suggests that "a licence to crenelate" may have been granted more for heraldic reasons, as a mark of grace and favour.

Crenellations Square notches in the top of a wall. Each notch is a crenel and each section of wall a merlon. The soldiers stood behind the merlons and shot through the crenels.

Crenelation: a notched battlement made up of alternate crenels (openings) and merlons (square sawteeth) Cross-wall: an internal dividing wall in a great tower Curtain wall: a castle wall enclosing a courtyard ...

Crenelated (KREN a laytid): having battlements Battlements were mainstays in Medieval forts Found in Gothic, Gothic Revival, Tudor Revival, styles ...

Crenelated Notched or indented, usually with respect to tops of walls, as in battlements.

Crenel - The low segment of the alternating high and low segments of a battlement. Crenelation - Battlements at the top of a tower or wall. Crocket - Curling leaf-shape.

Crenel or Crenelle the space between merlons on a battlemented wall, also known as an embrasure Crenellation ...

crenellation A regular series of gaps in the low wall at the edge of a roof. cresting A decorative rail, or a row of finials, or another feature at the top of a building, often along the ridge of the roof.

Crenelation Also called a battlement. This is a parapet (a low wall) constructed at the top of a larger wall for defensive purposes, behind which defenders can shelter or fight.

Crenel, Crenelle: The part of a parapet which is indented alternating with the solid uprights called merlons, which allowed the defenders to fire at the enemy while gaining protection from the merlons against the returned fire.

- crenellation alternating open and solid parts, similar to the top of a castle - buttress ...

crenellation: fortification- a "license to crenellate" was official permission to raise a fortified building or fortify an existing structure. Jagged protective stonework at the top of a castle wall. crenels: low sections of the battlements.

Each gateway consists of an arched opening flanked by two huge semi-circular bastion towers with battered walls, arrow slits and pointed crenellations.

A battlement or a crenellation is a parapet with open spaces for shooting. The raised portions of a battlement are called merlons, and the openings are called embrasures.

Castellated - Decorated with battlements (a parapet with alternating indentations and raised portions); also called crenellation. Building with battlements are usually brick or stone.

Battlements - A Parapet with indentations or embrasures, with raised portions (merlons) between; also called crenellations.

See also: Tower, Square, Brick, Wall, Roof