Look up embrasure  or crenel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An embrasure (or crenel or crenelle; sometimes called gunhole in the domain of gunpowder-era...

In dentistry, embrasures are V-shaped valleys between adjacent teeth. They provide a spill way for food to escape during chewing which essentially aids...

interproximal embrasure types or classes as described below: Type I – the gums fills embrasure space completely Type II – the gums partially fills embrasure space...

surrounding the castle. When an embrasure linked to more than one arrowslit (in the case of Dover Castle, defenders from three embrasures can shoot through the...

28 but have the main embrasure replaced with a Bren gun embrasure, Bren gun embrasures in the side walls and a rifle embrasure in the rear wall. A further...

gallantry in swimming the ditches and entering the North Taku Fort by an embrasure during the assault. His citation reads: For distinguished gallantry in...

or fortifications. Merlons are sometimes pierced by narrow, vertical embrasures or slits designed for observation and fire. The space between two merlons...

they are always narrow at the tip, so as to allow for access to narrow embrasure spaces between teeth. They differ from periodontal curettes, which possess...

one JM/AC37 embrasure, one twin machine gun embrasure and a GFM cloche. Casemate de Breitenacker Sud: SIngle block with one JM/AC37 embrasure, one twin...

(JM/AC37) embrasure, one machine gun embrasure (JM) and two GFM cloches. Block 5: eastwards-flanking artillery block with three 75 mm gun embrasures, two automatic...

configurations; F types used standard triggers and stocks and were used for embrasure mounts in casemates and cupolas, while the T featured a trigger operated...

10–12 men with a stepped embrasure facing backwards and a combat section 50 cm (20 in) higher. This elevated section had embrasures at the front and sides...

roof that resembles a battlement on a medieval castle tower, including embrasure-like openings. The red lantern sits on the roof and is 4 metres (13 ft)...

cloche (GFM), one twin machine gun embrasure, one 135mm gun embrasure and one machine gun (JM)/47mm anti-tank gun embrasure (JM/AC47). Block 2: Infantry block...

was to mount a battery there. There was no intention at first of making embrasures in this tunnel, but an opening was found necessary for ventilation; as...

storage, accommodation, or artillery which could fire through an opening or embrasure. Although the outward faces of brick or masonry casemates proved vulnerable...

known as open gingival embrasures, and colloquially known as "black triangle", is the space or gap seen at the cervical embrasure, below the contact point...

the time. The palisade was eventually replaced with a brick wall with embrasures. The fort's main facilities were erected around the large central square...

7P7 armoured embrasure plate with a thickness of 10 centimetres and a weight of 7.5 tonnes, in front of which there was a stepped embrasure made of concrete...

the practice of firing a cannon over a parapet rather than through an embrasure in a fortification's casemate. The former gives better angles of fire...

gallantry in swimming the ditches and entering the North Taku Fort by an embrasure during the assault. They were the first of the British established on...

gallantry on the 18th October, 1854, in having volunteered to unmask the embrasures of a five-gun battery in the advanced Right Attack, and when so employed...

volunteered to go into an embrasure to repair a breach. He and another private went into the battery and leapt into the embrasure, where they carried out...

great gallantry in the ditches and entering the North Taku Fort by an embrasure during the assault. They were the first of the British troops established...

to the bone. Embrasures are triangularly shaped spaces located between the proximal surfaces of adjacent teeth. The borders of embrasures are formed by...

Aerial attacks had failed to hit the Le Hamel strongpoint, which had its embrasure facing east to provide enfilade fire along the beach and had a thick concrete...

gaps or indentations at intervals in the parapet, the gaps being called embrasures or crenels, and the intervening high parts being called merlons. Loophole...

the upper part. It is set with wire entanglements and dotted with gun embrasures, look-outs and varieties of military establishments. In December 1999...

periodontal disease control, oral hygiene maintenance, maintaining proper embrasure space, addressing gingiva–alveolar mucosa problems, and esthetic improvement...

evidenced by the unilateral row of teeth on the right side of the denture. An embrasure clasp is viewable on the device's left half, as well as two cingulum rests...