(n.) A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.
Example Sentences:
(1) A morphometric study has been made of the alpha-sector (Giolli and Creel 1973) of the guinea pig's dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) in Nissl preparations.
(2) Creel, Witkop, and King have used evoked potential methods to show that such a pathway defect likely occurs in the human albino.
(3) Anatomical studies of the Creel albino cat have demonstrated a pronounced atrophy of cells in the medial superior olive, a structure thought to be important for the detection of interaural time differences (ITDs).
Crenel
Definition:
(n.) See Crenelle.
(n.) An embrasure or indentation in a battlement; a loophole in a fortress; an indentation; a notch. See Merlon, and Illust. of Battlement.
(n.) Same as Crenature.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aerial shots along the route – taking in the crenellated ruins of Dunluce Castle, the vertiginous Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge, the basalt stacks of the Giant's Causeway, and the seaside villages of Ballycastle, Cushendun, Cushendall and Carnlough – will be a pleasant surprise for viewers who have an entirely different image of Northern Ireland.
(2) Behind the high, crenellated walls of Kigali prison, 7,000 prisoners are crammed into a space that was built to accommodate perhaps a tenth of that number.
(3) Its crenellated edges are deep purple and its eight tentacles look like soft pink coral.
(4) The most notable morphological effect of the antibiotic was ruffling or crenelation of the outer membrane, which resulted ultimately in its separation from the inner membrane.
(5) • Doubles from €84 B&B, +351 258 808 200, meloalvimhouse.com 4 Pauper’s castle , Porto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Two metro stops from Porto’s centre, Castelo Santa Catarina is a crenellated Gothic palace set in its own mature gardens.
(6) Jamie Vardy ’s having a(nother) party: he’s going to get married at Peckforton Castle in Cheshire – actually not a castle, just a big and kind-of-oldish house with crenellations – on 25 May.
(7) We stopped at Pembroke Castle to while away a little more of the drizzle, wondering if this massive crenellated fortification from the 12th century was also, in its day, considered a monstrous carbuncle.
(8) The sexual characters of the parapodial cirri (male and female swellings, male crenellations) are always expressed on stump or regenerate according to the genetic sex.
(9) • Doubles from €80 B&B, +351 968 044 992, boucadarques.com 16 Douro gem , Amarante Facebook Twitter Pinterest A crenellated, isolated mini-manor house full of atmosphere and antiques, Casa Levada is now run as a B&B by Maria and Luis Mota, he the great nephew of poet Teixeira de Pascoaes, who used to summer here.