crenellate, -elate, v.
(ˈkrɛnɛleɪt)
[f. F. crénel-er + -ate. The l has been doubled partly after crenelled; partly perh. after assumed L. *crēnella, dim. of crēna.]
trans. To furnish with battlements, to embattle; to furnish with embrasures or loopholes.
| 1851 Turner Dom. Archit. 157 note, Laurence de Ludlow had licence to crenellate his mansion of Stoke-Say. 1877 Clery Min. Tact. xvii. 261 Walls that have been loopholed or crenelated afford material aid. |
Hence
ˈcrenellated,
crenelated ppl. a., embattled.
| 1823 Crabb Technol. Dict., Crenellated parapet (Fort.). 1848 Lytton Harold iv. vii, Crenellated castles. 1869 tr. Lenormant's Anc. Hist. East I. iv. iv. 459 The roofs of Assyrian edifices were flat and terraced, surrounded by a crenelated battlement. |
| transf. 1881 Athenæum 4 June 754 Crenellated mountain tops half clad in snow. |