Word Finder - castle

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A large building that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king.

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An instance of castling.

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A rook; a chess piece shaped like a castle tower.

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A defense structure in shogi formed by defensive pieces surrounding the king.

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A close helmet.

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Any strong, imposing, and stately mansion.

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A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back.

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The wicket.

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To house or keep in a castle.

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To protect or separate in a similar way.

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To make into a castle: to build in the form of a castle or add (real or imitation) battlements to an existing building.

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(usually intransitive) To move the king 2 squares right or left and, in the same turn, the nearest rook to the far side of the king. The move now has special rules: the king cannot be in, go through, or end in check; the squares between the king and rook must be vacant; and neither piece may have been moved before castling.

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(usually intransitive) To create a similar defensive position in Japanese chess through several moves.

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To bowl a batsman with a full-length ball or yorker such that the stumps are knocked over.

That is my castle in the air.

That castle cost a fortune to build.

The road leading to the castle was modern blacktop.

Your home will be your castle, and in your castle you will be secure.

He trailed Kiki out of the castle to the boulders a short distance from the walls.

He made his way through the castle with the black stones as he had many times during his long stay.

Most had attacked the castle while Darkyn.s personal guard went after Sasha.

They looked like two seated sentinels guarding the castle gate.

She'd said not a word for the two hour ride to my castle in the sky.

Mr. Marsh was the undisputed king of the castle, but he obviously acknowledged his wife as the queen.

Dolbadarn Castle is a circular tower near the foot of Peris lake.

A courier who galloped to the castle in advance, in a troyka with three foam-flecked horses, shouted "Coming!" and Konovnitsyn rushed into the vestibule to inform Kutuzov, who was waiting in the hall porter's little lodge.

He led her to the uppermost floor of the castle, to a hallway with magnificent views of a green valley with towering trees.

Deidre sought to figure out what it was about the currents and subtle movement that kept her in place when she wanted to return to the castle, where it was warm.

Before his house was pulled down, when his comrades avoided it as "an unlucky castle," I visited it.

He walked back into the castle, leaving her with burning cheeks.

I evacuated the castle, Kris said.

The air was chilled, still and damp, like she imagined a castle dungeon would feel.

Alex is the traditional king of the castle and you are – at least to some degree – subservient.

From behind him, Toby tore out of the castle in a snowsuit.

She walked through the castle quickly, not liking the quiet, and emerged into a courtyard leading to an expansive cobblestone driveway.

With the castle flooded by demons, she didn.t know where she could take the vial to keep it from Sasha when he woke.

Kutuzov was occupying a nobleman's castle of modest dimensions near Ostralitz.

He'd lived in Tokyo before Rhyn dragged him to the castle as his charge d'affairs.

She retreated to the castle, up the back stairwell off limits to everyone but her, and to the warmth of her chamber.

Sasha was somewhere in the castle, and Gabriel was gone.

He entered the castle, following the scents up the back stairwell that Katie alone used to avoid the other Immortals.

He jogged through the castle and ran out into the snow, launching himself into the cold air as he changed into the bird form.

She began to wonder if he made it out of the castle.

It suffered much from the ravages of the Thirty Years' War, but the episcopal castle, then destroyed, was subsequently rebuilt, and in 1852 was converted by Louis Napoleon into a place of residence for widows of knights of the Legion of Honour.

Only when she was panting did she stop and look back to make certain no one from the castle could see her.

He loped along the trail through the forest and trotted into the park around the castle, where the person he least wanted to see awaited him with a glower and crossed arms.

She recalled what sent her outside the castle, and her anger at Kris ratcheted up another notch.

Hannah asked, her glowing gaze going to the castle again.

Hoping they.d fix his Rhyn problem for him, he entered the castle and headed straight to the office of his personal secretary.

Now, you can send your soldiers to the castle where the demons are staging an attack, and rejoin the Council, or I can bury you here in your front yard.

He concentrated on which Sanctuary he wanted, the farthest from the castle, and lifted Sasha's body.

The stream forms a loop round and almost encircles the castle, from which there are beautiful views of the sinuous valley and the opposite well-wooded heights.

Almansa is built at the foot of a white limestone crag, which is surmounted by a Moorish castle, and rises abruptly in the midst of a fertile and irrigated plain.

The old castle was largely rebuilt in the 19th century.

It is commanded by a large castle.

Next, how soon can you all have your men to the castle to kill some demons?

The whole effect of the grim castle, the silvery stream and the verdant woods makes one of the most striking scenes in Belgium.

In order to undertake the crusade Godfrey sold the castle of Bouillon to the prince bishop of Liege, and the title of duke of Bouillon remained the appendage of the bishopric till 1678, or for 580 years.

At the extreme north-eastern end of the lake, on an islet which, when the water is low, becomes part of the mainland, stand the imposing ruins of Kilchurn Castle.

Its romantic surroundings have made this castle a favourite subject of the landscape painter.

In 1208 he destroyed the ancestral castle of Wittelsbach, the site of which is now marked by a church and an obelisk.

The latter seen from a distance resembles a medieval castle crowning a hill-top.

In 1727 he bought Betchworth Castle, near Dorking, where he passed the remainder of his life.

The old castle of Schwanenburg (formerly the residence of the dukes of Cleves), has a massive tower (Schwanenturm) 180 ft.