MACHICOLATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does machicolate mean? 

• MACHICOLATE (verb)
  The verb MACHICOLATE has 1 sense:

1. supply with projecting galleries

  Familiarity information: MACHICOLATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MACHICOLATE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Supply with projecting galleries

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

machicolate the castle walls

Hypernyms (to "machicolate" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Domain category:

architecture (the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

machicolation (a projecting parapet supported by corbels on a medieval castle; has openings through which stones or boiling water could be dropped on an enemy)