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What is a merlon?

What is a merlon? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (architecture, military) Any of the projections between the embrasures of a battlement.
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Then, making one end fast to a merlon, he slid down after her.
Rectangular-base merlon topped with a leaf-shaped object, the concave surface of which has two holes for attaching it.
The merlon was found by Golvin in the palace of Manar.
Friar Jerome, armed with an enormous mace, mounted on a merlon, felled all who came within his reach.
Apache Corp, Dana Petroleum and Merlon International will explore for oil in Egypt's western desert under deals signed with the government, state news agency MENA reported.
This merlon, with its rectangular base prolonged on both sides by two projecting notches, is crowned by an element in the shape of a leaf whose concave surface has two perforations at its centre.

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