1. It was small, with a sloping ceiling and a pair of windows set in deep embrasures.

2. Battlement definition: a parapet or wall with indentations or embrasures , originally for shooting through Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

3. Casemate definition is - a fortified position or chamber or an armored enclosure on a warship from which guns are fired through embrasures.

4. Although the weapon was not able to penetrate newer Soviet tanks like the T-34 and KV-1, it still proved to be quite effective against bunker loopholes/embrasures, long range targets, and even aircraft.

5. Casemate (plural Casemates) A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops

6. Battlement (plural Battlements) In fortification: an indented parapet, formed by a series of rising members called cops or merlons, separated by openings called crenelles or embrasures, the soldier sheltering himself behind the merlon while he fires through the embrasure or through a loophole in the Battlement