crenel

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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

Nor sooner said than in he sprang   And aimed a mortal blow, The crenel upon the buckler rang, And having achieved an echoing clang,   It made no more ado.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Leighton, Alexander