[ad. med.L. castellātiōn-em, n. of action f. castellā-re: see above and -ATION.] The building of castles; the furnishing of a house with battlements; concr. a fortified or castellated structure; a battlement.
1818. in Todd.
1853. H. Jenkins, Colchest. Castle, 9. The whole system of Norman castellation.
1858. Lond. Rev., Oct., 123. We are treading, as it were, upon the battlements of this immense natural castellation [Snowdon].
1861. Miss Beaufort, Egypt. Sepulchres, II. xx. 176. The castellations and battlements of this [the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem] are so quaint as to be quite ludicrous.
