Crossword-Solution: MACHICOLATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Machicolation | n. | An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle. |
| Machicolation | n. | The act of discharging missiles or pouring burning or melted substances upon assailants through such apertures. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “MACHICOLATION”
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| has openings through which stones or boiling water could be dropped on an enemy | 1 answer |
| CASTLE part | 31 answers |
| Fortification | 56 answers |
| Gallery | 69 answers |
| Opener | 72 answers |
| Opening | 76 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAAE
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with MACHICOLATION (5)
Above the door is a window, in front of which runs a sort of balcony, the floor of which is pierced with openings, like a machicolation, through which the inhabitants may destroy an unwelcome visitor without any danger to themselves.
Tall towers, exactly square and equally bare of carving or machicolation, stood at intervals along this forbidding defence and flanked its curtain.
This wall is far more picturesque than that of Siena, being lofty and built of stone, with a machicolation of arches running quite round its top, like a cornice.
Consequently they were abandoned, and their places were taken by projecting galleries of stone, supported, not on wooden beams, but on stone corbels, and it is this second stage in fortification which is called machicolation.
Two massive towers flanked the actual entrance and were linked across by an iron chain; over the entrance (E) was a machicolation, further added to in time of war by a hoarding of timber; and an outer portcullis fell in front of the heavy iron-lined doors.