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Definition of "battlements" []

  • Plural form of battlement. (noun)

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Use "battlements" in a sentence
  • "Out of the four main battlements, all but the southernmost were under the firm, unyielding hand of the Clan Engineers."
  • "Food isn't fantastic, though perfectly palatable – but evening chai on the battlements is a fabulous Indian experience."
  • "The word thus rendered in Isa. 54: 12 ought rather to be rendered "battlements" (LXX., "bulwarks;" R.V., "pinnacles"), or as Gesenius renders it, "notched battlements, i.e., suns or rays of the sun" = having a radiated appearance like the sun."