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machicolate

machicolate verb: to furnish with machicolations.

machicolate: to furnish with machicolations
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Verb

machicolate (third-person singular simple present machicolates, present participle machicolating, simple past and past participle machicolated)

  1. To furnish with machicolations.
    • The wide-wing’d sunset of the misty marsh / Glared on a huge machicolated tower / That stood with open doors […]1871, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Last Tournament”, in Gareth and Lynette etc., London: Strahan, published 1872, page 116

Forms of machicolate

third-person singular presentmachicolates
present participlemachicolating
past participlemachicolated
pastmachicolated

Origin of machicolate

From Medieval Latin machicolātus, perfect participle of machicolāre, from Old French machicoller, from machicolleis (“machicolation”), from Old Occitan machacol, from macar (“to crush”) + col (“neck”).

Words formed from machicolate

Questions about machicolate

What does machicolate mean?
Machicolate means to furnish with machicolations.
What part of speech is machicolate?
Machicolate is a verb.
What is the past tense of machicolate?
The past tense of machicolate is machicolated.

Words near machicolate in the dictionary

  1. machiavellized
  2. machiavellizes
  3. machiavellizing
  4. Machiavels
  5. machicolade
  6. machicolate
  7. machicolated
  8. machicolates
  9. machicolating
  10. machicolation
  11. machicolations

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