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Merlon

noun
1.
A solid section between two crenels in a crenelated battlement.






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"Merlon" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the Emperor Justinian. [V] Now Belisarius sent Leuderis, the commander of the Goths, and the keys of the gates to the emperor, but he himself turned his attention to the circuit-wall, which had fallen into ruin in many places; and he constructed each merlon of the battlement with a wing, adding a sort of flanking wall on the left side,[69] in order that those fighting from the battlement against their assailants might never be hit by missiles thrown by those storming the wall on their left; and he also dug a moat about the wall of sufficient depth ...
— Procopius - History of the Wars, Books V. and VI. • Procopius



Words linked to "Merlon" :   wall, crenellation, crenelation, rampart, bulwark, battlement



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