1. Arch. Furnished with battlements, crenellated.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose. I saugh a gardyn … walled welle, With high walles enbatailled.
1525. Ld. Berners, Froiss., II. clvii. [cliii.] 431. The whiche castell was enbatylled.
1538. Leland, Itin., II. 40. An embatelid Waulle now sore yn ruine.
1769. Gray, in Poems & Lett. (1775), 369. This seat … is an ancient hall-house, with a very large tower embattled.
1867. Lady Herbert, Cradle L., vii. 194–5. The old embattled walls still standing.
2. Having an edge or outline shaped like a battlement; crenellated; spec. in Heraldry.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Nonne Pr. T., 40. His comb was … Enbateled [other texts And batayld] as it were a castel wall.
1555. W. Watreman, Fardle Facions, II. vii. K vj b. On their heades a copintancke, embatled aboute like a turrette.
1572. Bossewell, Armorie, II. 29 b. Beareth Sables, & Gules embatyled … three Fer de molyns d’Argente.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Embattled Line, in heraldry.
1803. Rees, Cycl., Bretessed … a … charge … embattled on both sides opposite to each other.
1834. Planché, Brit. Costume, 222. Hats and caps … with embattled or escalloped edges.
1864. Boutell, Heraldry Hist. & Pop., iii. (ed. 3), 18. A Fesse dancette or embattled.
1884. W. H. Rideing, in Harper’s Mag., March, 529/2. The embattled cliffs and the restless sea fill the view.
