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encastle

encastle is the alternative form of incastle.

Meaning of incastle

Verb

incastle (third-person singular simple present incastles, present participle incastling, simple past and past participle incastled)

  1. (obsolete) To add castles to a place.
    • Meth was alredie meetlie well and indifferentlie fortified and incastelled.1587, John Hooker translating Gerald of Wales as the "Vaticinall Historie of the Conquest of Ireland" in Chronicles, Vol. III, 47/2
    Synonyms:
    fortify

Forms of encastle

third-person singular presentencastles
present participleencastling
past participleencastled
pastencastled

Questions about encastle

What is encastle the alternative form of?
Encastle is the alternative form of incastle.

Words near encastle in the dictionary

  1. encastage
  2. encastellate
  3. encastellated
  4. encastellates
  5. encastellating
  6. encastle
  7. encastled
  8. encastles
  9. encastling
  10. encatchment
  11. encatchments

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Adapted from Wiktionary: encastle (page history and authors); incastle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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