一切經音義 73.136

73.136

Battlements (俾倪: also written in the two forms 㪏堄, and in the *Sancang* in the two forms 䫌倪, both with the fanqie 普米 and 五禮, *bìnì*): The *Guangya* says: '*Bìnì* are parapets, low rampart walls.' The *Picang* says: 'Small walls on top of a city wall.' The *Shiming* says: '*Bìnì* are the walls on top of a rampart; through their apertures one peeps (*bìnì*) for emergencies. They are also called *pí*, meaning supporting (*bì*) the height of the wall. Some call them parapet walls (literally: 'women's walls'), indicating they are low and small, comparable to women compared to men. Some name them *dié*, taking the sense of layered overlapping.'