English

Verb

embattail ‎(third-person singular simple present embattails, present participle embattailing, simple past and past participle embattailed)

1. (archaic, transitive) To furnish with battlements; to fortify as if with battlements.
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book I, lxiv:

     The glorious standard last to heav'n they spread, / With Peter's keys ennobled, and his crown, // With it seven thousand stout Camillo had, / Embattailed in walls of iron brown.

   • Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

     To embattail and to wall about thy cause / With iron-worded proof.