(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.

plural of machicolation

To furnish with machicolations.

Having machicolations.

simple past tense and past participle of machicolate

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of machicolate

present participle of machicolate