castling

Meaning of castling

noun
  1. An abortion, or a premature birth.
    1646: Wherein notwithstanding, we should rather rely upon the urine in a castling’s bladder — Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, ch 5
  2. The second or third swarm of bees which leaves a hive in a season.
  3. A miniature cast or mould.
  4. One that is cast.
verb
  1. To house or keep in a castle.
  2. To protect or separate in a similar way.
  3. To make into a castle: to build in the form of a castle or add (real or imitation) battlements to an existing building.
  4. (usually intransitive) 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.
  5. (usually intransitive) 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.
noun
  1. A move in which the king moves two squares towards a rook, and the rook moves to the other side of the king; the action of the verb to castle.
  2. The act of constructing a defense structure in Japanese chess in which the king (玉) is positioned in a certain way so that it is protected by pawns (歩) and silver general(s) (銀) and/or gold general(s) (金) often with an additional knight (桂) and lance (香車).

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Hyphenation of castling

castling

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
  • castling is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

castling synonyms

Meaning castle:

castle

Meaning :

castellate, incastellate, fortify

Anagrams of castling

catlings, sclating

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