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- Machicolation abstract "A machicolation (French, machicoulis) is a floor opening between the supporting corbels of a battlement, through which stones, or other objects, could be dropped on attackers at the base of a defensive wall. The design was adopted in the Middle Ages in Europe when Norman crusaders returned from the Holy Land. A machicolated battlement projects outwards from the supporting wall in order to facilitate this. A hoarding is a similar structure made of wood, usually temporarily constructed in the event of a siege. Advantages of machicolations over wooden hoardings include the greater strength of stone battlements, as well as the fireproof properties.The word derives from the Old French word machecol, mentioned in Medieval Latin as machecollum and ultimately from Old French macher 'crush', 'wound' and col 'neck'. Machicolate is only recorded in the 18th century in English, but a verb machicollāre is attested in Anglo-Latin. The Spanish word denoting this structure, matacán, is similarly composed from "matar canes" meaning roughly "killing dogs", the latter being a reference to infidels. A variant of a machicolation, set in the ceiling of a passage or over a gateway, was known as a meurtrière or colloquially as a murder-hole.Machicolations were more common in French castles than their English contemporaries, and when used in English castles they were usually restricted to the gateway, as in the 13th-century Conwy Castle.".
- Machicolation thumbnail Pierrefonds5.jpg?width=300.
- Machicolation wikiPageExternalLink machic.html.
- Machicolation wikiPageExternalLink machicolation.htm.
- Machicolation wikiPageID "609922".
- Machicolation wikiPageRevisionID "566958609".
- Machicolation hasPhotoCollection Machicolation.
- Machicolation subject Category:Architectural_elements.
- Machicolation subject Category:Fortification_(architectural_elements).
- Machicolation subject Category:Medieval_defences.
- Machicolation comment "A machicolation (French, machicoulis) is a floor opening between the supporting corbels of a battlement, through which stones, or other objects, could be dropped on attackers at the base of a defensive wall. The design was adopted in the Middle Ages in Europe when Norman crusaders returned from the Holy Land. A machicolated battlement projects outwards from the supporting wall in order to facilitate this.".
- Machicolation label "Machicolation".
- Machicolation label "Machikuły".
- Machicolation label "Maschikuli".
- Machicolation label "Mata-cães".
- Machicolation label "Matacán".
- Machicolation label "Mezekouw".
- Machicolation label "Mâchicoulis".
- Machicolation label "Piombatoia".
- Machicolation label "Машикули".
- Machicolation label "出し狭間".
- Machicolation sameAs Maschikuli.
- Machicolation sameAs Matacán.
- Machicolation sameAs Matakan.
- Machicolation sameAs Mâchicoulis.
- Machicolation sameAs Piombatoia.
- Machicolation sameAs 出し狭間.
- Machicolation sameAs 마시쿨리.
- Machicolation sameAs Mezekouw.
- Machicolation sameAs Machikuły.
- Machicolation sameAs Mata-cães.
- Machicolation sameAs m.02w6kq.
- Machicolation sameAs Q23398.
- Machicolation sameAs Q23398.
- Machicolation wasDerivedFrom Machicolation?oldid=566958609.
- Machicolation depiction Pierrefonds5.jpg.
- Machicolation isPrimaryTopicOf Machicolation.
