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10 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns
originFrom Middle English batilment, from Old French bataillement, earlier bastillement (“fortification”), from bastillier (“to fortify, to equip with battlements”), from bastille (“fortress”) (see bastion). By surface analysis, battle + -ment.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- battement 13
- abetment 12
- embattle 12
- lambent 11
- mantelet 10
- nettable 10
- batmen 10
- bemean 10
- bename 10
- embale 10
- mantlet 9
- teleman 9