machicolation

Etymology
From. Machicolamentum may be derived from (modern ) +  +. The English word is cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬 (modern 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  An opening between corbels that support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, of a fortified building from which missiles can be shot or heated items dropped upon assailants attacking the base of the walls.
 * 2)  A projecting parapet with a series of such openings.
 * 1)  A projecting parapet with a series of such openings.
 * 1)  A projecting parapet with a series of such openings.
 * 1)  A projecting parapet with a series of such openings.
 * 1)  A projecting parapet with a series of such openings.

Translations

 * Basque: matakan
 * Belarusian: машыкуль
 * Bulgarian: машикула
 * Carpathian Rusyn: махику́лы
 * Catalan: matacà, lladronera
 * Danish: machicoulis
 * Dutch: mezenkooi, mezekouw
 * Estonian: mašikulii, piginukk
 * Finnish: heittoaukko
 * French:
 * Galician: matacán
 * German:
 * Hebrew: משיקולי
 * Irish: uchtbhalla pollta, poll lámhaigh
 * Italian:, piombatoia
 * Japanese: 出し狭間
 * Korean: 마시쿨리
 * Limburgish: machicoulis, mezekouw
 * Lithuanian: mašikula
 * Persian: تیرکش دروازه قلعه
 * Polish: machikuły
 * Portuguese: mata-cães
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: машикула
 * Slovene: mašikula
 * Spanish:
 * Thai: ช่องเชิงเทิน
 * Turkish: tepe mazgalı
 * Ukrainian: машикулі