merlon (redirected from merlons)

mer·lon  (mûrln)

n.

A solid portion between two crenels in a battlement or crenelated wall.

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[French, from Italian merlone, augmentative of merlo, battlement, perhaps from Medieval Latin merulus, from Latin, merle (from their imagined similarity to blackbirds sitting on a wall).]

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Noun

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merlon - a solid section between two crenels in a crenelated battlement battlement, crenelation, crenellation - a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns bulwark, rampart, wall - an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes; "they stormed the ramparts of the city"; "they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down"