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merlon n

(architecture, military, historical) Any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement, originally for archers to shield behind while shooting arrows over the embrasures, or through loopholes in the merlons. [...] Alternative spelling of merlin (“a small falcon, Falco columbarius”)

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