Crenelle

  • 31Bickle — Recorded as Bickle, Bickell, Bickel and probably others, this is an English surname. It is chiefly to be found in the county of Devon, and is a variant of Bickley. This is a locational name from places called Bickley in the county of Cheshire,… …

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  • 32Notch — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Notch >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 notch notch dent nick cut Sgm: N 1 indent indent indentation Sgm: N 1 dimple dimple GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 embrasure embrasure …

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  • 33crenel — cren·el || krenl n. crenature, notch, space or opening in a battlement (also crenelle) …

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  • 34crenels — cren·el || krenl n. crenature, notch, space or opening in a battlement (also crenelle) …

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  • 35crenel — [ krɛn(ə)l] (also crenelle krɪ nɛl) noun an indentation in the battlements of a building. Origin C15: from OFr., based on pop. L. crena notch …

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  • 36vent — I. n. 1. Opening, hole, vent hole. 2. Spiracle, air tube, air pipe, blow hole. 3. (Ornith.) Anus. 4. (Arch.) Crenelle, loop hole. 5. Emission, passage, outlet, escape, effusion. 6 …

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  • 37crenel — /ˈkrɛnəl/ (say krenuhl) noun 1. one of the open spaces between the merlons of a battlement. 2. a crenature. –verb (t) (crenelled or, US, creneled, crenelling or, US, creneling) 3. to crenellate. Also, crenelle. {late …

  • 38crenel — [kri nel′kren′əl] n. [OFr, dim. < VL crena, a notch: see CRENATE] any of the indentations or loopholes in the top of a battlement or wall; embrasure: also crenelle [kri nel′] vt. creneled or crenelled, creneling or crenelling to crenelate …

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  • 39crenation — noun 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 …

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  • 40crenature — noun 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 …

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