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crenel
鎗眼;炮門
Cre·nelle, Cre·nel n.
1. An embrasure or indentation in a battlement; a loophole in a fortress; an indentation; a notch. See Merlon, and Illust. of Battlement.
2. Bot. Same as Crenature.
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crenel
n 1: one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches
between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the
edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a
shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a
hypertonic solution etc.) [syn: scallop, crenation,
crenature, crenelle]
2: a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated
battlement [syn: crenelle]
v : supply with battlements [syn: crenelate, crenellate]