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Castle   /kˈæsəl/   Listen
Castle

noun
1.
A large and stately mansion.  Synonym: palace.
2.
A large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack.
3.
(chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard.  Synonym: rook.
4.
Interchanging the positions of the king and a rook.  Synonym: castling.
verb
(past & past part. castled; pres. part. castling)
1.
Move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king.



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"Castle" Quotes from Famous Books



... simple Nuns. And since her emancipation, she had but wandered in the English lakes with her uncle and aunt and Samuel Greenbank, and so had come to Arranstoun like any other tourist to see this famous castle still inhabited after ...
— The Man and the Moment • Elinor Glyn
... said, the fo'castle of the next carriage, in which came Mrs Bush and Susan, with Harry, who declared that he didn't fancy the custom of following in different vehicles, as great ...
— True Blue • W.H.G. Kingston
... He ought to have lived in the time of Ivanhoe, or Young Lochinvar, or the Three Musketeers, or Robin Hood. I can see him bending a bow in Nottingham Forest or breaking a lance in a tournament or storming a fortress by day, and at night twanging a guitar beneath a castle window or writing a sonnet to ...
— Bert Wilson in the Rockies • J. W. Duffield
... mountain of gold nor silver, the mound in question was an object of rare interest. A very enchanted castle it did appear, and it was difficult to assign its formation to nature alone. Human agency, one could not help fancying, must have had something to do in piling up a structure so ...
— The War Trail - The Hunt of the Wild Horse • Mayne Reid
... which none disputed. The door into the garden was always open, and Columbus was extremely happy, being of supremely independent habits and quite capable of trotting round to the kitchen premises of the castle for his daily portion without disturbing anyone en route. How he discovered the kitchen Juliet never knew. Doubtless his exploring faculty stood him in good stead. But his appearance there was absolutely regular and orderly, and he always returned to the conservatory ...
— The Obstacle Race • Ethel M. Dell


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