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n. A low protective wall or railing along the edge of a raised structure such as a roof or balcony.

n. An earthen or stone embankment protecting soldiers from enemy fire. See Synonyms at bulwark.

n. A low retaining wall.

n. Part of a perimeter that extends above the roof.

n. A fortification consisting of a wall.

n. A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like.

n. A wall, rampart, or elevation of earth, for covering soldiers from an enemy's fire; a breastwork. See Illust. of Casemate.

n. A wall or rampart rising breast-high.

n. In architecture, a wall or barrier, either plain or ornamented, placed at the edges of platforms or balconies, roofs of houses, sides of bridges, etc., to prevent people from falling over; also, something resembling such a parapet in appearance or use. See cut under moucharaby.

n. In anatomy, the alveolus, or alveolar border of the jawbone, in which the teeth are inserted.

n. a low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony

n. fortification consisting of a low wall

"Yet even here the parapet is knocked clearly away for a space of fifteen feet at least, and the eye rests on a house standing in the line of vision on the shore of"

wall   

indented parapet   

casemate   

battlement    babette    bartizan    glacis    esplanade    breastwork   

rampart    battlements    balustrade    ledge    terrace    buttress    spire    pillar    turret    bastion