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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Castle \Cas"tle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Castled}; p. pr & vb n. {Castling}.] (Chess) To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it for the purpose of covering the king. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Castle \Cas"tle\, n. [AS. castel, fr L. castellum dim. of castrum a fortified place castle.] 1. A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress. The house of every one is to him castle and fortress, as well for his defense againts injury and violence, as for his repose. --Coke. Our castle's strength Will laugh a siege to scorn. --Shak. Note: Originally the medi[ae]val castle was a single strong tower or keep with a palisaded inclosure around it and inferior buidings such as stables and the like and surrounded by a moat; then such a keep or donjon, with courtyards or baileys and accessory buildings of greater elaboration a great hall and a chapel, all surrounded by defensive walls and a moat, with a drawbridge, etc Afterwards the name was retained by large dwellings that had formerly been fortresses, or by those which replaced ancient fortresses. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: castle n 1: a large and stately mansion [syn: {palace}] 2: a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack 3: the chessman that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard [syn: {rook}] 4: interchanging the positions of the king and a rook [syn: {castling}] v : move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king; in chess From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Castle, OK (town, FIPS 12750) Location: 35.47510 N, 96.38379 W Population (1990): 94 (57 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 74833 From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Castle a military fortress (1 Chr. 11:7), also probably a kind of tower used by the priests for making known anything discovered at a distance (1 Chr. 6:54). Castles are also mentioned (Gen. 25:16) as a kind of watch-tower, from which shepherds kept watch over their flocks by night. The castle" into which the chief captain commanded Paul to be brought was the quarters of the Roman soldiers in the fortress of Antonia (so called by Herod after his patron Mark Antony), which was close to the north-west corner of the temple (Acts 21:34), which it commanded.
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