embattle
verb
- make ready for battle
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɛmˈbæ.təl/ / [əmˈbæ.ɾəl] / /ɛmˈbæt.əl/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English enbatelen, enbatailen, from Old French *embastiller ("to fortify"; > Middle Latin imbataliare, imbattajare), from en- + + bastiller (“to build, fortify, embattle”). More at baste.
- A merlon, or a single one of the series of solid projections of a battlement.
“Again, it can be drawn with the angle of the limbs being greater or less than a right angle, but they will appear to conflict with the embattles which have to be rectangular. In some ordinaries such as the fess, there must be an odd number of embattles, otherwise it will start high and end low [...]”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English enbatelen, enbatailen, from Old French *embastiller ("to fortify"; > Middle Latin imbataliare, imbattajare), from en- + + bastiller (“to build, fortify, embattle”). More at baste.
- To furnish with battlements; to give the form of battlements to.
“to embattle a wall”