crenel

• crenelle

From Old French crenel ( > modern French créneau), diminutive of cren (“notch”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɛnəl/

crenel (plural crenels or creneaux)

1. The space between merlons in a crenelated battlement.
   • 2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Arya [Stark]”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 35:

     They would wake Lord Bolton and search Harrenhal from crenel to cellar, and when they did they would find the map and the dagger missing, […]

crenel oblique singular, m (oblique plural creneaus or creneax or creniaus or creniax or crenels, nominative singular creneaus or creneax or creniaus or creniax or crenels, nominative plural crenel)

1. alternative form of kernel

Borrowed from French créneau.

crenel n (plural creneluri)

1. crenel