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Merlon   Listen
noun
Merlon  n.  (Fort.) One of the solid parts of a battlemented parapet; a battlement.






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... of the Emperor Justinian. [V] Now Belisarius sent Leuderis, the commander of the Goths, and the keys of the gates to the emperor, but he himself turned his attention to the circuit-wall, which had fallen into ruin in many places; and he constructed each merlon of the battlement with a wing, adding a sort of flanking wall on the left side,[69] in order that those fighting from the battlement against their assailants might never be hit by missiles thrown by those storming the wall on their left; and he also dug a moat about the wall of sufficient depth ...
— Procopius - History of the Wars, Books V. and VI. • Procopius



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