bat·tle·ment /ˈbætḷmənt/
 城垛,防衛牆


 Bat·tle·ment n.  Arch. (a) One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications. (b) pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.

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 battlement
      n : a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps
          for firing arrows or guns [syn: crenelation, crenellation]


 Battlement
    a parapet wall or balustrade surrounding the flat roofs of the
    houses, required to be built by a special law (Deut. 22:8). In
    Jer. 5:10, it denotes the parapet of a city wall.