castled

Verb

castle (third-person singular simple present castles, present participle castling, simple past and past participle castled)

1. (transitive) To house or keep in a castle.
   • ...to encastle, to Castle.1611, John Florio, Queen Anna's New World of Words, s.v. "Castellare"

   Synonyms:

   castellate, incastellate

2. (figuratively, transitive) To protect or separate in a similar way.
   • Castle me in the armes of thy everlasting strength.1655, William Gurnall, The Christian in Compleat Armour, 1st Pt., 32
3. (obsolete) To make into a castle: to build in the form of a castle or add (real or imitation) battlements to an existing building.

   Synonyms:

   fortify

4. (intransitive, usually) 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.
   • He [i.e., the king] may change (or Castle) with this Rooke, that is, he may goe two draughts at once towards this Rooke... causing the Rooke to stand next to him on either side.1656, Gioachino Greco, translated by Francis Beale, The Royall Game of Chesse-Play, Being the Study of Biochimo, page 8
5. (intransitive, usually) To create a similar defensive position in Japanese chess through several moves.
6. To bowl a batsman with a full-length ball or yorker such that the stumps are knocked over.
   • And the 23-year-old brought the crowd to their feet when he castled Gayle's stumps, signalling the direction of the pavilion to his friend for good measure.2009, “Lightning Bolt Blows Over Gayle”, in BBC Sport

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