MERLON

Merlon

A merlon forms the vertical solid parts of a battlement or crenellated parapet—in Medieval architecture of fortifications for millennia. Merlons are sometimes narrowly pierced by vertical embrasure "slits" to view and fire through. When a wider space is between two merlons it is called a crenel, and a series of many merlon—crenels creates crenellation. Crenels designed in later eras, for use by cannons, were called embrasures.

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merlon

Noun

  1. Any of the projections between the embrasures of a battlement


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