The word 'battlement' is a correct and usable term in written English.
It refers to a defensive wall or parapet, usually with alternating low parts (called "merlons") and high parts (called "crenels") and used on top of a fortification for protection against enemy fire. Example: The ancient castle was surrounded by tall battlements that had withstood countless attacks throughout its history.
The first such machine, bolted atop a battlement on the 12th-century Pinhel Castle in north-eastern Portugal, delights tourists who tilt it up, down and around for an augmented view of the castle and its surroundings.
Inside each juan were stone or brick steps leading to the top of the battlement.
The battlement was an early development in military architecture; it was found in Chaldea, Egypt, and prehistoric Greece, as well as commonly in ancient Roman fortifications.
In some countries, through Middle Eastern influence, the battlement frequently took decorative shapes; and toward the end of the Gothic period in Europe, as the military necessity decreased, the battlement became merely decorative.
Some of the deaths in this gory Game of Thrones finale were cathartic, such as Arya Stark's stabby dispatchment of Sir Meryn Trant, or Ramsay's girlfriend taking a long walk off a short battlement.
But, then, what precisely would we be celebrating if and when McIlroy came marching in triumph to the clubhouse which seemed nothing so much as another battlement built by the prosperity of upper-class America?
Parked on the edge of a battlement-like viewpoint embedded in the mountainside, the warm glow of reward spreads through my tired muscles as I marvel at a sheer, tree-topped slab of headland jutting into ultramarine sea beyond my handlebars.
Soutra Gilmour has divided the Donmar stage with a high wall, which affords a battlement-like promontory, and with transparent sliding doors, allowing glimpses of another life which spasmodically bursts through into the action.
She is, though, a player of weapons and weaknesses, reminiscent at times of some fearsome medieval catapult, to be wheeled painstakingly into place before unleashing that battlement-shredding forehand.
On the Queens side of this bridge, famously known as the 59th Street Bridge, about a half-hour walk, to the left are the Queensbridge Houses, with battlement-type rooftops that leave you half expecting to see Dorothy fleeing from the flying monkeys in "The Wizard of Oz".
AS more and bigger takeover bids roll out across Europe, France planted its flag on the battlements by publishing a decree on May 15th that extends the government's power to intervene when a French company is at risk of falling into foreign hands.
