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Merlon

One of the solid parts of a battlemented parapet; a battlement. See Illust. of Battlement.

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Bulwark 76% connected

A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.

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Rampart 76% connected

That which fortifies and defends from assault; that which secures safety; a defense or bulwark.

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Wall 76% connected

A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.

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Battlement 70% connected

One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.

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Crenelation 70% connected

The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure.

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Balcony noun · 78% connection

A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony i…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: solid, parts, battlemented, parapet, battlement.
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Baluster noun · 78% connection

A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gall…

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Balustrade noun · 78% connection

A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the ea…

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Banquette noun · 78% connection

A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.

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Barbette noun · 78% connection

A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.

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Berme noun · 78% connection

A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.

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Bonnet noun · 78% connection

A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.

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Brattishing noun · 78% connection

Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet.

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Breastrail noun · 78% connection

The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.

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Brisure noun · 78% connection

Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.

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Chandelier noun · 78% connection

A movable parapet, serving to support fascines to cover pioneers.

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Compact p. p. & a · 78% connection

Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense.

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Cone noun · 78% connection

A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- call…

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Contravallation noun · 78% connection

A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged.

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Cotter noun · 78% connection

A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an ope…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: solid, parts, battlemented, parapet, battlement.
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Counterscarf noun · 78% connection

The exterior slope or wall of the ditch; -- sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the e…

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Crenel noun · 78% connection

An embrasure or indentation in a battlement; a loophole in a fortress; an indentation; a notch. See Merlon, and Illust. of Battlement.

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Crystallinity noun · 78% connection

(chemistry) The degree of structural order in a solid.; "The crystallinity of drug substances and additives is one of the fundamental…

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