Battalled, Battled, Imbattled, Crenellé, Crenellated
French: Crenelé (from cren, a notch); Latin: Imballatum or Pinnatum (from pinna, a battlement)
A partition line indented like a battlement of a castle. The notch in a parapet is called a crenelle or embrasure, and the intermediate piece of masonry a merlon. When a second and smaller merlon is placed on the first the battlement is said to be battled embattled or stopped.
A bend bretessed
Bretessed: A term indicating that the fess, chevron and similar ordinary is borne embattled or in the form of battlements on the upper and under side, so placed that the merlons and crenelles correspond on either side. Compare with counter-embattled
Embattled arrondé: signifies that the tops of the battlements are circular or rounded.
A bend embattled counter-embattled.
Embattled counter-embattled or Counter-embattled: A term indicating that the fess, chevron and similar ordinary is borne embattled or in the form of battlements on the upper and under side, but so placed that the merlons on one side opposes the crenelles on the other. Compare with bretessed
Note. The chief cannot be counter-embattled, although most of the other ordinaries may.
A fess embattled counter-embattled grady
Embattled grady: A division line in the form of one or more battlement or merlon upon another. It is so termed because it resembles the form of steps, having the battlements one degree or ascent, above another. It is also called battle embattled but, as it could be mistaken for counter-embattled, embattled grady is the clearer term. The ordinary can also be blazoned embattled counter-embattled grady as illustrated. The term stopped is also very occasionally used.
A fess embattled in base
Embattled in base (French: bastillé): A term indicating that the battlements are reversed and point to the base.
