Gratings [noun]

From the broken gratings in front, the bit of rope and strip of blanket were left dangling in the wind.

From both the engine rooms ladders and gratings gave direct access to the boat deck.

Light and air were only admitted by small gratings on the sides of the roofing, which was about level with the ground outside.

Go up into the roof, and keep a good look-out from the little gratings; but keep away, so as not to show your face.

Peter Gross listened for a while to the lad's rhythmic breathing, then tip-toed to the gratings and pulled himself up to them.

A few minutes later, Venturita opened the window of the library, which was on the ground floor and protected with iron gratings.

Hrungnir's bane shall cast thee down to Hel, beneath the gratings of the dead.

The artificer engineer informed me that the water was over the engine-room gratings.

To illustrate the reasoning that has led to this conclusion, suppose a rope to be passed through two vertical gratings.

I saw in a flash all the windows below with their shining panes, their flower-pots, their bird-cages, and their gratings.