'battlements' is a valid word in written English.
It is typically used as a noun, and usually refers to the wall-like structures commonly found on the tops of castles and fortified buildings. Example Sentence: The castle was guarded by high battlements that kept out the enemy.
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.
The Castle is a charming curiosity, but from its battlements the horizons hold none of the views for which Africa is famous.
Rather than just delivering his sermons indoors, he would take to the streets to storm the battlements of hell, sin and apostasy.
An escalade, or attack over the battlements, was ordered.
Bad King John leans across a castle's battlements; a Burger King standard flutters above him.Alone togetherPay attention and you find that a place that seems to epitomise the anomie and perpetual motion of 21st-century life actually harbours a community.
Restlessly, rather than just delivering his sermons indoors, he would take to the streets, there to mount his attack on the battlements of hell, sin and apostasy.
The second, increasingly popular, is to identify the scapegoats and toss them over the battlements to the baying hordes regulators, irate shareholders and so on in the hope that such a sacrifice will save the city.Royal Dutch/Shell tried both.
We're going to strengthen the battlements in the areas where we think we can win, and when we're out the other side, in my view in much larger numbers in Parliament than people presently predict, then of course we'll need to expand out again because there are great parts of the country now where there is just no Liberal Democrat presence.
Over the years he added cloisters, turrets, and battlements, filled the interior with pictures and curios, and amassed a valuable library.
This device is said to have been used in Egypt and India for raising water and lifting soldiers over battlements as early as 1500 bce.
The British land forces began constructing siege battlements in early April, and by April 14 the victory of a British force led by Lieut.
