Word Meanings - ENBATTLED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Embattled.

EMBATTLEMENT
1. An intended parapet; a battlement. 2. The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.
EMBATTLE
To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle. One in bright arms embattled full strong. Spenser. Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the
EMBATTLED
Having the edge broken like battlements; -- said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like. 3. Having been the place of battle; as, an embattled plain or field. J. Baillie. (more info) 1. Having indentations like a battlement. Chaucer.