Usually means: King and rook swap places.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word castling:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. castling: Merriam-Webster
  2. castling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. castling: Vocabulary.com
  4. castling: Wordnik
  5. castling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. castling: Wiktionary
  7. Castling, castling: Dictionary.com
  8. Castling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Castling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. castling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. castling: Rhymezone
  12. Castling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. castling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. castling: FreeDictionary.org
  15. castling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. castling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. castling: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. castling: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. castling: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. castling: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Castling: Chess Dictionary

(Note: See castle as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Castling)

noun:  (obsolete) An abortion, or a premature birth.
noun:  (obsolete) The second or third swarm of bees which leaves a hive in a season.
noun:  A miniature cast or mould.
noun:  One that is cast.
noun:  (chess) 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.
noun:  (shogi) The act of constructing a defense structure in Japanese chess in which the king (玉) is positioned in a certain way so that it is protected by pawns (歩) and silver general(s) (銀) and/or gold general(s) (金) often with an additional knight (桂) and lance (香車).
noun:  A surname.

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