1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Merlon

MERLON, in architecture, the solid part of an embattled parapet between the embrasures, sometimes pierced by loopholes. The word is French, adapted from Ital. merlone, possibly a shortened form of mergola connected with Lat. mergae, pitchfork, or from a diminutive moerulus from murus (moerus), a wall

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