EMBRASURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does embrasure mean? 

• EMBRASURE (noun)
  The noun EMBRASURE has 1 sense:

1. an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through

  Familiarity information: EMBRASURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMBRASURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

embrasure; port; porthole

Hypernyms ("embrasure" is a kind of...):

opening (a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made)

Domain category:

ship (a vessel that carries passengers or freight)

 Context examples 

Each of us had seized his rifle, and Lord John had pulled out a small bush to make an embrasure in the hedge.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I leaned back in the embrasure in a more comfortable position, so that I could enjoy more fully the aërial gambolling.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“We have all heard of your siege of Capua, and how you ran up your ship’s guns without trenches or parallels, and fired point-blank through the embrasures.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Beneath and around them blazed the huge fire, roaring and crackling on every side of the bailey, and even as they looked the two corner turrets fell in with a deafening crash, and the whole castle was but a shapeless mass, spouting flames and smoke from every window and embrasure.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Outside the house came the sound of a pistol-shot; the glass of the window was shattered with a bullet, which, ricochetting from the top of the embrasure, struck the far wall of the room.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As they passed over the drawbridge, Alleyne marked the gleam of arms in the embrasures to right and left, and they had scarce set foot upon the causeway ere a hoarse blare burst from a bugle, and, with screech of hinge and clank of chain, the ponderous bridge swung up into the air, drawn by unseen hands.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)