Battlement

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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

II. Battlement ·noun ·pl The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.

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