Usually means: Battlements with alternating merlons, crenels.
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  1. crenellation: Merriam-Webster
  2. crenellation: Collins English Dictionary
  3. crenellation: Vocabulary.com
  4. crenellation: Wiktionary
  5. crenellation: Dictionary.com
  6. Crenellation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. crenellation: Rhymezone
  8. crenellation: FreeDictionary.org
  9. crenellation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. crenellation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. crenellation: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. CRENELLATION: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

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  1. crenellation: Encyclopedia

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  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (crenellation)

noun:  (countable, uncountable) A pattern along the top of a parapet (fortified wall), most often in the form of multiple, regular, rectangular spaces in the top of the wall, through which arrows or other weaponry may be shot, especially as used in medieval European architecture.
noun:  (uncountable) The act of crenellating; adding a top row that looks like the top of a medieval castle.
noun:  (countable) Any of a series of notches with fancied resemblance to such battlements, as for example around the bezel of a flashlight.

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