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Definition of "crenellate" []

  • To furnish with crenelles. (verb)
  • To indent; to notch. (verb)

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Use "crenellate" in a sentence
  • "In 1373, the sheriff of Somerset received licence "to fortify and crenellate his manse at Nunney", and his building down in an undefended valley seems to have had more of a picturesque than a strategic purpose."
  • "As they peered out they could see where the seamless undulations of the ice cap began to fracture and crenellate, forming a corrugated flow that seemed to ripple off towards the west."
  • "A licence to crenellate mansum infra manerium suum was granted by Edward II. to"