英：['krenəl]
美：['krenəl]
crenel如何读
crenel是什么意思
- n.城或墙顶之垛口；枪眼；炮门
crenel自然拼读
cren·el
kre nl
crenel变形
crenels, creneling, creneled
crenel英英释义
Noun
1. 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.)
2. a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement
Verb
1. supply with battlements
crenel词源中文解释
也是 crenelle，意为"城垛上的开放空间"，源自13世纪中叶的 carnel, kernel，来自法语古词 crenel "一个凹口； 炮眼"（12世纪，现代法语中的 créneau），看起来是 cren "一个凹口"的小型化，源自拉丁语的 crena（参见 cranny）。
crenel词源英文解释
Noun Middle French crenel, from Old French, diminutive of cren notch, from crener to notch, from Medieval Latin crenare, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin crinare to split, perhaps of Celtic origin; akin to Old Irish criathar sieve; akin to Greek krinein to separate Transitive verb French créneler, from Old French creneler, from crenel
crenel 例句
1 On the inside of the rampart and in the wide crenel between two upthrust merlons.
2 The heads were mounted between the crenels, along the top of the wall, impaled on iron spikes so they faced out over the city.
3 Drifts climbed the walls and filled the crenels along the battlements, white blankets covered every roof, tents sagged beneath the weight.
4 He knocked aside the wall of fresh-fallen snow filling up the crenel and leaned out between the merlons.
5 A bolt passed within a foot of him, shattering the crust of frozen snow that had plugged the closest crenel.
6 “The crenels are all flat now. It’s slippy and feels dangerous when I walk on it.”
7 Over it there is sprung a high-arched, rough stone bridge, with crenelled walls, quite as artistic in its way as may be found in pictures of ancient English brook-crossings.
8 Blood and torn flesh spattered over those nearest him, and the boy, doubling up as if made of rags, rolled through the crenel and fell outside the wall.
9 Leaning into a crenel between two square merlons, Simon took a deep breath of the mild spring air.
10 “Quien viva!” came the sonorous hail of a sentinel from the crenelled parapet.
11 They got within thirty yards of the walls when they found themselves in front of a crenelled outwork with a deep ditch before it.
12 Nor sooner said than in he sprang And aimed a mortal blow, The crenel upon the buckler rang, And having achieved an echoing clang, It made no more ado.
13 And in each crenel of the wall was a cross and a chapel.
14 The solid old fabric has rows of crenels under the roof, which shows its warlike character.
15 A little farther off, on the left, stood the black pile of the Casa Mata, the arsenal, crenelled for musketry, and surrounded by a quadrangular field work.
16 And, turning aside, she motioned Gonzaga to the crenel she abandoned.
17 One September night a cord was let down from the crenels of the tower, and by this the duke was to descend from his window to the castle ditch, where Benavente's men awaited him.
18 Reenforcements of Swiss were sent to the Bastille between whose crenels already since the 30th of June were to be seen the menacing mouths of loaded cannon.
crenel 同义词
2 城垛
3 雉堞