Battlement

Battlement - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

A parapet wall or balustrade surrounding the flat roofs of the houses, required to be built by a special law (Deut. 22:8). In Jer. 5:10, it denotes the parapet of a city wall.

Battlement - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

BAT'TLEMENT, n. [This is said to have been bastillement, from bastille, a fortification.]

A wall raised on a building with openings or embrasures, or the

embrasure itself.