Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being castellated.
- noun The act of fortifying a house and rendering it a castle, or of giving it the appearance of a castle by providing it with battlements, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of making into a castle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of making a building into a
castle - noun The addition of
battlements to a building
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Examples
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All along the ridge the rock cropped out, bare and bleak, but broken in rough natural castellation.
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In summer evenings Mrs. Bolam could lie and watch the sun setting behind a castellation of sloping roofs and twisting chimneys with, in the distance, the turrets of St. Pancras St.tion darkening against a flaming sky.
A Mind to Murder James, P. D. 1963
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All along the ridge the rock cropped out, bare and bleak, but broken in rough natural castellation.
Lair of the White Worm Bram Stoker 1879
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With black ribs set close about its summit, it wears rather the appearance of a colossal castellation, an enormous fort of solid masonry, than of any natural mass of rock.
The Roof of France Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877
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It features a reflow-solderable edge castellation interface so the module can be incorporated in a product design without costly I / O and RF connectors.
GPS World 2009
chained_bear commented on the word castellation
Battlements; used when implying use as a decorative feature.
August 24, 2008