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Machcol(l)in(g, n. Also: machculing, -cling, machicolin. [From as late ME. ma(t)checole v., OF. machecoller to machicolate.] Machicolations. — 1471 Milne–Home MSS. 182.
Ipsam turrim … muris et fossis cum le barmking et machcoling fortificandi 1491 Reg. Great S. 426/2.
Cum … le battalling, machcolling, portculicis [etc.] 1490 Ib. 411/2; 1491 Ib. 429/1. 1500 Coll. Aberd. & B. 318.
Machcvling 1500 Reg. Privy S. I. 64/1.
With power to mak thairapon irne yettis, machicolin [etc.] 1508 Ib. 253/2.
Machcoling 1509 Reg. Great S. 713/2.
Cum propugnaculis viz. barmkyn et le machcolin