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(poetic) A post of security or defense.
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A fortress or fortified position.
n
A well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel.
adj
Having the form of a bastion (fortification).
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(obsolete) A medieval fortified house, in northern England and the Scottish borders
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A defensive wall built around a tower house. It was once used to protect livestock during an attack.
adj
Fortified by or furnished with a castle or castles.
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(obsolete) A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town.
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A fortified dwelling place belonging to a king or noble; a prehistoric fort.
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(historical) In early Ireland, a ringfort or a circular stone structure used for defense.
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Alternative form of castlet. [A small castle.]
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(chiefly historical) The governor or caretaker entrusted to oversee a castle or keep for its lord.
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(historical) The office of a castellan, the lordship of a castle.
adj
Somewhat like a castle
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(historical, rare, obsolete) The district of a castle.
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(uncountable) The act or process of making a building into a castle.
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A person who forms part of a castell.
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(historical) A small Roman detached fort or fortlet used as a watch tower or signal station.
adj
Alternative spelling of castellated [Castle-like: built or shaped like a castle.]
v
(transitive) To house or keep in a castle.
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The motif of a castle being defended by women, found in medieval art.
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The guard or defence of a castle.
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(literally) One who builds castles.
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(literally) The construction of castles.
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Land controlled by a castle
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A variant of castles in the air.
adv
Like a castle; in a fortified manner.
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(rare, historical or archaic) One who builds or makes repairs to a castle; a castlebuilder.
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Alternative spelling of château [A French castle, fortress, manor house, or large country house.]
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Synonym of castellan: the lord of a castle; a caretaker entrusted to oversee a castle for its lord.
n
(obsolete) A little castle.
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Alternative form of castellany [(historical) The office of a castellan, the lordship of a castle.]
n
Any stately residence imitating a distinctively French castle.
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(sometimes figuratively) A stronghold or fortified place.
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A fortification built around a sieged target by the besiegers.
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A castle built to secure a lord's territorial claims or to conquer the territory of a rival ruler.
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Alternative form of counter-castle [A castle built to secure a lord's territorial claims or to conquer the territory of a rival ruler.]
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(fortification) A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.
v
To remove castellation or battlements (from)
n
A fortification having such protection.
n
The fortified tower of a motte or early castle; a keep.
v
(transitive, obsolete) Alternative form of incastellate: to make into a castle. [(transitive, obsolete) To make into a castle.]
v
(obsolete) Alternative form of incastle: To add castles to a place. [(obsolete) To add castles to a place.]
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The area or town enclosed by a line of fortification.
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(archaic or obsolete) The indoor layout or plan of a castle.
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(architecture, historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
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A fortifying structure erected for defense, such as an embankment, wall, or tower.
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A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops.
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(archaic) A small fortress.
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(obsolete) A little fort; a blockhouse.
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(rare) Alternative spelling of fortalice [(archaic) A small fortress.]
n
(obsolete) A little fort; a fortlet.
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A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; for example a fort, a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.
n
Obsolete spelling of fortress [A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; for example a fort, a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.]
v
(transitive, obsolete) To make into a castle.
v
(obsolete) To add castles to a place.
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(historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
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(fortification) The keep of a castle; a guardhouse or building in a fortress where such a body of troops is lodged.
adj
(in combination) Having a specified number or kind of mansions.
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A short sturdy round masonry fort, especially one constructed at various coastal points in the British Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.
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One of a series of small rectangular fortifications, spaced roughly one Roman mile apart, built during the period of the Roman Empire.
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Alternative form of mile-fortlet [A milecastle.]
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The predecessor of the castle, having a raised earth mound (the motte) topped with a tower (or donjon), and a wooden ring fortification surrounding a courtyard (the bailey).
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A small Russian fort, typically wooden, encircled by a palisade wall.
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A fort with five bastions.
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(obsolete) A castle; a fortified building.
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(historical) A kind of fortification without bastions, and generally arranged in a ring around the protected area, originating in France in the late 18th century and fully developed in Germany in the first half of the 19th century.
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(rare) A building designed to resemble a castle.
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That which defends against intrusion from outside; a protection.
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(obsolete, nautical, slang) a prison.
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A fortified defensive structure, usually circular or oval in shape, essentially a motte-and-bailey castle minus the motte.
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The act of building sandcastles.
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(informal) Synonym of McMansion
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a movable tower used in sieges
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A massive and heavily protected fortress.
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(fortifications) A bastion of masonry, often with chambers beneath it, built at an angle of the interior polygon of some works.
v
(transitive) To take a castle from; to turn out of a castle.
n
(military, slang, derogatory) Hardtack.
n
A citadel or fortress, especially one that protects a city.
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