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n. A large fortified building or group of buildings with thick walls, usually dominating the surrounding country.

n. A fortified stronghold converted to residential use.

n. A large ornate building similar to or resembling a fortified stronghold.

n. A place of privacy, security, or refuge.

n. Games See rook2.

verb-intransitive. Games To move the king in chess from its own square two empty squares to one side and then, in the same move, bring the rook from that side to the square immediately past the new position of the king.

v. To place in or as if in a castle.

v. Games To move (the king in chess) by castling.

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

n. An instance of castling.

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

n. A close helmet.

v. To perform the move of castling.

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

n. A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress.

n. Any strong, imposing, and stately mansion.

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

n. A piece, made to represent a castle, used in the game of chess; a rook.

verb-intransitive. To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of covering the king.

n. A building, or series of connected buildings, fortified for defense against an enemy; a fortified residence; a fortress.

n. In heraldry, a representation of two or more towers connected by curtains, often having a gateway in one of the curtains, and always embattled.

n. The house or mansion of a person of rank or wealth: somewhat vaguely applied, but usually to a large and more or less imposing building.

n. A piece made in the form of a castle, donjon, or tower, used in the game of chess; the rook.

n. A kind of helmet.

n. Nautical, a kind of fighting-tower formerly erected on war-galleys, etc., near the bow and stern, and called respectively forecastle and aftcastle. See cut under cadenas.

n. Synonyms See fortification.

In chess, to move the king from his own square two squares to the right or left, and bring the rook or castle to the square the king has passed over.

n. a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack

n. a large and stately mansion

v. move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king

n. interchanging the positions of the king and a rook

n. (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard

"The word castle evolved from the Latin word castrum meaning a closed fort or stronghold."

castled    castles    castling   

move    go    chess move    chessman    chess piece   

make) castles in the air    a castle in the air    the castle    in spain    to build castles in spain   

castled    castling    king of the castle    castles in the air    castellated    sandcastle    ice castle   

stronghold    fortress    citadel    fortification    rook    keep   

Basle    Brasil    Cassel    Kassel    facile    gracile    hassel    hassell    hassle    tassel   

palace    fortress    tower    mansion    town    cottage    hall    house    garden    cathedral