EMBRASURE

port, embrasure, porthole

(noun) an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

embrasure (plural embrasures)

(architecture, military) Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement.

The slanting indentation in a wall for a door or window, such that the space is larger on the inside than the outside.

(obsolete) An embrace.

Source: Wiktionary

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Em*bra"sure, n. Etym: [See Embrace.]

Definition: An embrace. [Obs.] "Our locked embrasures."" Shak.

Em*bra"sure (277), n. Etym: [F., fr. embraser, perh. equiv. to ébraser to widen an opening; of unknown origin.]

1. (Arch.)

Definition: A splay of a door or window. Apart, in the twilight gloom of a window's embrasure, Sat the lovers. Longfellow.

2. (Fort.)

Definition: An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a crenelle. See Illust. of Casemate.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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