machicolation 的定义
Architecture.
- an opening in the floor between the corbels of a projecting gallery or parapet, as on a wall or in the vault of a passage, through which missiles, molten lead, etc., might be cast upon an enemy beneath.
- a projecting gallery or parapet with such openings.
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- It was therefore superseded ere long by the use of machicolation, where a projecting stone gallery replaced the woodwork.
- Another machicolation (I) opened from the roof in front of the second portcullis and second door.
- This wooden story probably formed the bell chamber; the machicolation-like supports still existed in 1781.
- Gables were furnished with crow-steps, while machicolation became at times almost fantastic.