embattail

present singular third person embattails · participle present embattailing · participle past embattailed · past embattailed

1. archaictransitiveTo embattle (furnish with, or as if with, battlements)

   The glorious standard last to heav'n they spread, / With Peter's keys ennobled, and his crown, // With it seven thousand stout Camillo had, / Embattailed in walls of iron brown.

   1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso, Book I, lxiv

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   Thou art no Sabbath drawler of old saws, / Distill'd from some worm-canker'd homily; / But spurr'd at heart with fieriest energy / To embattail and to wall about thy cause / With iron-worded proof, […]

   1830, Alfred Tennyson, “To J. M. K.”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Chicago, Ill.: The Dominion Company, published 1897, →OCLC, page 32