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machicolate

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ma⋅chic⋅o⋅late

  [muh-chik-uh-leyt]
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–verb (used with object), -lat⋅ed, -lat⋅ing.
to provide with machicolations.
Origin:
1765–75; < ML machecoll(um), a Latinization of MF *machecol lit., (it) breaks (the) neck (from the use of such openings to drop projectiles on an ascending attacker; mache, 3d sing. pres. of macher to beat, break, bruise (appar. of expressive orig.) + col neck (see collar )) + -ate 1 ; cf. late ME machecollyd machicolated
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ma·chic·o·late   (mə-chĭk'ə-lāt')   
tr.v.   ma·chic·o·lat·ed, ma·chic·o·lat·ing, ma·chic·o·lates
To provide or furnish with machicolations.

[Medieval Latin machicolāre, machicolāt-, from Old French machicoller, from machicoleis, machicolation, from Old Provençal machacol : macar, to crush (from Vulgar Latin *maccāre) + col, neck (from Latin collum; see kwel-1 in Indo-European roots).]
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