machicolation

1 There is still a fairly noticeable round tower—the Tour Marguerite—which has a pointed roof above its corbels, or perhaps they should be called machicolations.

2 The exterior is diversified by arched recesses forming machicolations, and the same architectural feature is reproduced in the square tower which rises like a donjon above the building.

3 Beneath the machicolations is a window, probably belonging to the upper chamber; and there seems to be a level space on the top of the tower.

4 So also is the masonry protection of the machicolation at the top of the donjon, a protection which at that time was usually given by wooden hoardings.

5 It would be similarly unreasonable to call battlements or machicolations architectural features, so long as they consist only of an advanced gallery supported on projecting masses, with open intervals beneath for offence.

6 Old habitations, commodious modern houses, frowning machicolations, church spires, grand hotels, innumerable caf�s, and much military, all combine in a blend of fascinating interest that one usually finds only in a great metropolis.

7 Saint-Malo, which is built right on the ocean and is enclosed by ramparts, looks like a crown of stones, the gems of which are the machicolations.

8 "By the Pope's whiskers!" went on a sham soldier, who had once been in service, "here are church gutters spitting melted lead at you better than the machicolations of Lectoure."

9 Consequently they were abandoned, and their places were taken by projecting galleries of stone, supported, not on wooden beams, but on stone corbels, and it is this second stage in fortification which is called machicolation.

10 His duties over for the forenoon, he went up the three hundred stairs of his bell-tower, to the wooden platform, between the machicolations.

11 There is no glacis or moat, but the machicolations, sixty feet or more up from the ground, must have afforded a well-nigh perfect means of repelling a near attack.

12 The sovereign is not afraid of rebellion, and the machicolations are only for ornament.

13 Tall towers, exactly square and equally bare of carving or machicolation, stood at intervals along this forbidding defence and flanked its curtain.

14 We wandered through the halls, through the towers, and over the narrow curtain with its gaping machicolations, which attract the eye irresistibly to the abyss below.

15 At each of the angles is a round tower, pierced with loopholes, and upon the intervening walls are far-descending machicolations.

16 The form of this lofty keep is rectangular, and the machicolations and embattlements which were added in the fifteenth century are in a perfect state of preservation.

17 The transport sphere plowed along the trench, past all the fortified city’s defenses: walls, moats, machicolations, crossbow cannons, drawbridges, bristling spear pits, bladed gates, and giant mechanical grinders.

18 An unusual and very effective ornamentation crowns both stages of the tower, consisting of a series of gradines at top with square machicolations below.

19 It was a castellated mansion as regular as a chessboard on its ground-plan, ornamented with make-believe bastions and machicolations, behind which were stacks of battlemented chimneys. 

20 The evil in an arch�ological point of view of misapplied invention in architectural subject.imagination, monstre machicolations and colossal cusps and crockets.

1 堞眼

machicoulis

2 凸堞

machicoulis

3 枪眼

loop loophole eyelet embrasure gunport machicoulis crenel