Definition of "embattail"

embattail

verb
third-person singular simple present embattails, present participle embattailing, simple past and past participle embattailed
1. (archaic, transitive) To embattle (furnish with, or as if with, battlements)
  Quotations
  The glorious standard last to heav'n they spread, / With Peter's keys ennobled, and his crown, // With it seven thousand stout Camillo had, / Embattailed in walls of iron brown.
  1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso, Book I, lxiv
  Thou art no Sabbath drawler of old saws, / Distill'd from some worm-canker'd homily; / But spurr'd at heart with fieriest energy / To embattail and to wall about thy cause / With iron-worded proof, […]
  1830, Alfred Tennyson, “To J. M. K.”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Chicago, Ill.: The Dominion Company, published 1897, page 32