port, embrasure, porthole
(noun) an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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
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
17 March 2025
(noun) magnet made of a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
