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Word Meanings - UNCASTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To take a castle from; to turn out of a castle.

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  • CASTLEWARD
    See CASTLEGUARD
  • 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
  • CASTLET
    A small castle. Leland.
  • CASTLERY
    The government of a castle. Blount.
  • CASTLEBUILDER
    Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes. -- Cas"tle*build`ing, n.
  • CASTLED
    Having a castle or castles; supporting a castle; as, a castled height or crag. 2. Fortified; turreted; as, castled walls.
  • CASTLE-GUARD
    A tax or imposition an a dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in it; castle-ward. 3. A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time.
  • UNCASTLE
    To take a castle from; to turn out of a castle.
  • FORECASTLE
    A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks. That part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels. In merchant vessels, the forward part of the vessel,

 

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