crenel

noun

a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement

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.)

verb

supply with battlements

Roots

crenacren- · Latin · notch ellus-el · Latin · diminutive

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