Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

embattail

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: em-bat-tail
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To embattle (furnish with, or as if with, battlements)

Archaic; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"The glorious standard last to heav'n they spread, / With Peter's keys ennobled, and his crown, // With it seven thousand stout Camillo had, / Embattailed in walls of iron brown."
"Thou art no Sabbath drawler of old saws, / Distill'd from some worm-canker'd homily; / But spurr'd at heart with fieriest energy / To embattail and to wall about thy cause / With iron-worded proof, […]"

Usage

Inflected Forms

embattails (present, singular) embattailing (participle, present) embattailed (participle, past) embattailed (past)

Questions

What does embattail mean?: To embattle (furnish with, or as if with, battlements)

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