雉堞，又称齿墙、垛墙、战墙，是有锯齿状垛墙的城墙。可用来作为守御城墙者在反击攻城者时的掩蔽之用。垛口长度约几十厘米到两米。古代计算城墙面积的单位是“方丈曰堵，三堵曰雉，一雉之墙，长三丈，高一丈”。堞则是城墙上如齿状的薄型矮墙。
这是个绅士的住宅，但不是贵族的宅邸。围在楼顶的雉堞增添了些许诗情画意。
It was three storeys high, of proportions not vast, though considerable: a gentleman's manor-house, not a nobleman's seat: battlements round the top gave it a picturesque look.
离开塘沽那些思乡的美军后，我经天津前往北平，在1946年除夕进入城墙上筑有雉堞的北平城。
Leaving the homesick Americans at Tangku, I passed through Tientsin to Peiping, entering the crenelated battlements of the Tartar City on the last day of 1946.
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