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• n  a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns

• It's more like an urban battlement, a place that turns its face from what is mostly an unsightly street.
• They are actually defending the battlement, but they have others.
• A strong woman with battlement bones and swept-back warrior hair, Anna was born in London in 1911.

• crenelation
• crenellation

News & Articles

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• A tricky calculation:The risk of cancer from oil and gas drilling
  The claim – based on a Battlement Mesa, Colorado study – that people living within a half-mile of an oil or gas well have a 66 percent higher chance of getting cancer is a shocker. It is also completely wrong.
  June 18, 2013 - Denver Post