Definitions for battlement

battlement bat·tle·ment

Spelling: [bat-l-muh nt]
IPA: /ˈbæt l mənt/

Battlement is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 324 anagrams from letters in battlement (abeelmnttt).

Definitions for battlement

noun

  1. Often, battlements. a parapet or cresting, originally defensive but later usually decorative, consisting of a regular alternation of merlons and crenels; crenelation.

Origin of battlement

1275-1325; Middle English batelment Middle French bataille battlement; see -ment

Examples for battlement

Moat and battlement grimace but faintly from behind their ornaments.

We lean on the battlement, long since dismantled, and gaze beneath us.

Stephen leaned on the battlement pondering what he would say.

Upon a knoll was a small square building with a battlement round it.

No one save a guard at the gate and another on the battlement.

For that we must go to the Castle ruin that crowns Lewes as with a battlement.

The end of the machine was raised and pointed over the battlement.

Gervaise leant on the battlement and looked with admiration at the scene beyond.

She bent over the battlement, stooped her face towards me, and kissed me on the mouth.

Then he flung out his arms on the battlement, and his head on his arms.

Word Value for battlement
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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