English Dictionary

machicolation

IPA（発音記号）

/məˌtʃɪkəˈleɪʃ(ə)n/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

(architecture) 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.

日本語の意味

（建築）防御施設に設けられた構造要素で、壁の張り出し部分やバルコニーの床、門の屋根などに設置され、矢石や熱した物などを敵に対して投じるための、コルベット（張出し部分を支える構造体）の間にある開口部。

From the castle wall's machicolation, defenders poured boiling oil onto the attackers below.

城壁のコーベル（持ち送り）の間に設けられた張り出した胸壁の下の開口部、つまり城壁の基部を攻撃する敵に向かって矢や熱い物を落とすための穴から、守備兵は下にいる攻撃者たちに熱した油を注いだ。

意味（1）

(architecture) 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.

Leibourn Caſtle, Kent. A proſpect of the front of that caſtle. Over the gate, we are told, was a machicolation or contrivance, from whence, in caſe of a ſudden attack, great ſtones, boiling water, or melted lead, might be thrown down upon the aſſailants.

意味（2）

(architecture) A projecting parapet with a series of such openings.

The main walls were carried to the top of the fourth story, where a capacious machicolation enclosed the tower, on which there is a parapet wall of great thickness, with arches: this was to protect the persons employed over the machicolations.

machicolations （ plural ）