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Castling

noun

Interchanging the positions of the king and a rook. Synonym: castle.

Castle

verb

(past & past part. castled; pres. part. castling)

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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"Castling" Quotes from Famous Books

... square at a time, but not diagonally, and only in an enceinte, or court, of four squares,—to wit, his own, the queen's, queen's paw and king's pawn's. Castling is unknown. The two guards remain in the same limits, but can move only diagonally; thus we have in our king both the Chinese king and his guard. The elephants move diagonally, two squares at a time, and cannot pass the river. Their knight moves like ours, but must not ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 32, June, 1860 • Various

... mutual change.] Interchange. — N. interchange, exchange; commutation, permutation, intermutation; reciprocation, transposition, rearrangement; shuffling; alternation, reciprocity; castling [at chess]; hocus-pocus. interchangeableness[obs3], interchangeability. recombination; combination 48[ref], 84.. barter &c. 794; tit for tat &c. (retaliation) 718; cross fire, battledore and shuttlecock; ...

— Roget's Thesaurus