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castle
noun
- 1. A large, fortified, especially medieval, building with battlements and towers.
- Thesaurus: tower, fortress, chateau, citadel, stronghold.
3. A large mansion, especially the residence of a nobleman.
4. chess.
- A piece that can be moved any number of empty squares forwards or backwards, but not diagonally. Also called rook.
- intr
castled, castling
1. chess.
- To make a move allowed once to each player in a game, in which the king is moved two squares along its rank towards either castle, and the castle is placed on the square the king has passed over.
