Definition of machicolate

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ma·chic·o·late    (m-chk-lt) KEY 

TRANSITIVE VERB:
ma·chic·o·lat·ed, ma·chic·o·lat·ing, ma·chic·o·lates

To provide or furnish with machicolations.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Medieval Latin machicolre, machicolt-, from Old French machicoller, from machicoleis, machicolation, from Old Provençal machacol : macar, to crush (from Vulgar Latin *maccre) + col, neck (from Latin collum; see k^wel-¹ in Indo-European roots)