rare. Also crennel. [a. F. créneler, f. OF. crenel: see prec. Cf. the parallel forms CARNEL, KERNEL.] trans. a. To embattle, to crenellate; also fig. See also CRENELLED. † b. To indent the edge of (a coin), obs.
[c. 1330, 1377, see CRENELLED.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 753. Licence to fortifie and Kernel his mansion house.]
1697. Evelyn, Numism., vii. 225. Crenneling of the small and thinner [moneys].
1840. Browning, Sordello, I. 284. The runnel slipped, Elate with rains … He … yet trod … on the stubs of living rock Ages ago it crenneled.
1883. H. E. Jerningham, Norham Castle, 170. A special licence was required for the towers to be crennelled.
