Definition for BAT'TLE-MENT

BAT'TLE-MENT, n. [This is said to have been bastillement, from bastille, a fortification, from Fr. bâtir, bastir, to build. Qu.]

A wall raised on a building with openings, or embrasures, or the embrasure itself. – Encyc. Johnson.

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