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MACHICOLATE
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Supply with projecting galleries
Example:
machicolate the castle walls
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "machicolate" is one way to...):
furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)
Domain category:
architecture (the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
machicolation (a projecting parapet supported by corbels on a medieval castle; has openings through which stones or boiling water could be dropped on an enemy)
