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Definition of Machicolation
1. Noun. A projecting parapet supported by corbels on a medieval castle; has openings through which stones or boiling water could be dropped on an enemy.
Definition of Machicolation
1. n. An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, for shooting or dropping missiles upon assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle.
Definition of Machicolation
1. Noun. An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upon assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. ¹
2. Noun. The act of discharging missiles or pouring burning or melted substances upon assailants through such apertures. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Machicolation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Machicolation
Literary usage of Machicolation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Deserts of Southern France: An Introduction to the Limestone and Chalk by Sabine Baring-Gould (1894)
"... —The Feudal Castle after the Crusades — The machicolation of the Thirteenth
Century — Embrasures for Firearms in the Fifteenth Century—Modification of ..."
2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1901)
"A machicolation protects the first portcullis and the first barred wooden gate ;
in the arch is a second machicolation, and then a third before the second ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"On to the passage way between the first and second doors opened a square
machicolation (G) from which the defenders in the upper chambers of the gate could ..."
4. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"RS machicolation. A projecting series of corbels often surmounting the walls of
later ... machicolation : A SIMPLE FORM; I:! ..."
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