crenel

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  • Noun:
    one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)
    a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement
  • Verb:
    supply with battlements

单词词源

crenel (n.)
"open space on an embattlement," early 14c., from Old French crenel (12c.), apparently a diminutive of cren "notch" (see cranny).