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   Cas·tle

   /ˈkas(ə)l/

   

   noun

   • 1. a large building, typically of the medieval period, fortified against attack with thick walls, battlements, towers, and in many cases a moat: "Edinburgh Castle"
   • ▪ a magnificent and imposing old mansion: "Castle Howard"
   • ▪ old-fashioned term for rook

   verb

   • 1. make a special move (no more than once in a game by each player) in which the king is transferred from its original square two squares along the back rank toward a rook on its corner square which is then transferred to the square passed over by the king: "both of the players castled on the queenside"
   • ▪ move (the king) by castling.

   Word Origin late Old English: from Anglo-Norman French and Old Northern French castel, from Latin castellum, diminutive of castrum ‘fort’.

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