v. [f. F. crénel-er + -ATE. The l has been doubled partly after crenelled; partly perh. after assumed L. *crēnella, dim. of crēna.] trans. To furnish with battlements, to embattle; to furnish with embrasures or loopholes.
1851. Turner, Dom. Archit., 157, note. Laurence de Ludlow had licence to crenellate his mansion of Stoke-Say.
1877. Clery, Min. Tact., xvii. 261. Walls that have been loopholed or crenelated afford material aid.
Hence Crenellated, crenelated ppl. a., embattled.
1823. Crabb, Technol. Dict., Crenellated parapet (Fort.).
1848. Lytton, Harold, IV. vii. Crenellated castles.
1869. trans. Lenormant’s Anc. Hist. East, I. IV. iv. 459. The roofs of Assyrian edifices were flat and terraced, surrounded by a crenelated battlement cut into gradines.
transf. 1881. Athenæum, 4 June, 754/3. Crenellated mountain tops, half clad in snow.
