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Castling

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An abortion, or a premature birth.

n. The second or third swarm of bees which leaves a hive in a season.

n. A miniature cast or mould.

n. One that is cast.

n. A move in which the king moves two squares towards a rook, and the rook moves to the other side of the king; the action of the verb to castle.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. That which is cast or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.

n. A compound move of the king and castle. See castle, v. i.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An abortion.

Abortive.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. interchanging the positions of the king and a rook

Word Usage

"Another high-level member of Mr. Putin's circle, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, resigned from the government in September after the so-called castling of leaders was announced."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

chess move

Variant

castle

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

abortion

Verb Stem

castle