- A solid portion of a crenelated wall between two open spaces.城齿：城堡雉堞墙上两块敞开空间中的实墙
- French 法语
- from Italian merlone [augmentative of] merlo [battlement] 源自 意大利语 merlone merlo的增义成分 [城垛]
- perhaps from Medieval Latin merulus 可能源自 中世纪拉丁语 merulus
- from Latin [merle (from their imagined similarity to blackbirds sitting on a wall)] 源自 拉丁语 [乌鸫（因它们与栖于墙头的乌鸫相象而得名）]