- n. Plural form of battlement. “Out of the four main
battlements, all but the southernmost were under the firm,
unyielding hand of the Clan Engineers.” “Food isn't fantastic,
though perfectly palatable – but evening chai on the battlements
is a fabulous Indian experience.” “The word thus rendered in
Isa. 54: 12 ought rather to be rendered "battlements" (LXX.,
"bulwarks;" R.V., "pinnacles"), or as Gesenius renders it,
"notched battlements, i.e., suns or rays of the sun" = having a
radiated appearance like the sun.” “Repeated to me by poor old
drunken Jem White the sexton, many years since, when on the
"battlements" of Oundle Church; Oundle being the market town for
the three villages in the rhymes quoted.” “The cold, ethereal
beauty he’d seen on the battlements was a warm, real girl after
all.” “The structure isnt a tent, like the ones in Haga Park in
Sweden; it has too many details like the battlements.” “But hell
and goblins damned have no place on a stage that is dappled with
the light of an ill-defined Sc