“Maybe she feels beleaguered in the castle.” They smiled to imagine Tertia on the battlements, peering glassily from behind machicolations.
From Shirley Hazzard, the Transit of Venus, ch 9
Anyone think Shad should play and give thoughts to the new game that came out Going Medieval?
I'd love to see his reaction to a game that, if you remember how to build it out right, can actually have Merlons and crenellations with actual Machicolations!!
what if the enemy just uses the machicolation hole to shoot through and hit you. Then what you have no protection
https://preview.redd.it/zswrt4mdn7551.jpg?width=3120&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c55f50c8753bedff3dfd8d3f0ee64d6f52b9634b
Lately, within the middle eld and yorelore ameanship on youtube, there has been a mooting on the true outspeaking of the word "machicolations", a bulwark on bergs that lets a shieldend shoot at men standing beneath them. In a film about the mooting, youtuber shadiversity foresets that an English way of saying it would be "neck-crusher" for its wordlore (macher, "to crush" + col, "neck") but I don't think that this works well for Anglish. I instead foreset "mashawsing" brooking mash and hawse, a sibword of col. I am not a speechloreman so if anyone has another begrip, please come forth.
