castle
/ˈkɑːsəl/ verb C2- To house or keep in a castle.
- To protect or separate in a similar way.
- To move the king 2 squares right or left and, in the same turn, the nearest rook to the far side of the king. The move now has special rules: the king cannot be in, go through, or end in check; the squares between the king and rook must be vacant; and neither piece may have been moved before castling.
- To create a similar defensive position in Japanese chess through several moves.
- To bowl a batsman with a full-length ball or yorker such that the stumps are knocked over.
He/she/it castles · Past castled · Past participle castled · -ing form castling
Verb forms
- Base form
- castle
- He/she/it
- castles
- Past
- castled
- Past participle
- castled
- -ing form
- castling
From the library
So, as she sat in the door of her castle, she happened to look around and saw Dorothy lying asleep, with her friends all about her.
Now this same morning the Wicked Witch came to the door of her castle and looked out with her one eye that could see far off.
When they returned to the castle the Wicked Witch beat them well with a strap, and sent them back to their work, after which she sat down to think what she should do next.
Then they lifted him up and flew away with him to the Witch’s castle, where he was placed in a small yard with a high iron fence around it, so that he could not escape.
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