battlement

battlement has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• n.. One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.
• n.. pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.
• n.. a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns