crenel

crenel
/kren"l/, n., v., creneled, creneling or (esp. Brit.) crenelled, crenelling.
n.
1. any of the open spaces between the merlons of a battlement. See illus. under battlement.
2. a crenature.
v.t.
3. to crenelate.
Also, crenelle /kri nel"/.
[1475-85; earlier creneul, crennel < MF, OF, appar. dim. of cren notch (attested since the 15th century), OF cran, of uncert. orig.; cf. CRENATE, CRANNY]

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