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Castling
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- 1 A surname.
- 1 An abortion, or a premature birth. obsolete
"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 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. uncountable, usually
"Castling is prevented temporarily: […] If there is any piece between the king and the rook with which castling is to be effected."
- 3 interchanging the positions of the king and a rook wordnet
- 4 The second or third swarm of bees which leaves a hive in a season. obsolete
- 5 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). uncountable, usually
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- 6 A miniature cast or mould.
"From the Celeste's own image was the first castling molded. A soft, delicate creature of flesh and blood she would call Woman. So that Her castlings may never feel the loneliness she Herself did suffer, she bestowed woman with a mate [...]"
- 7 One that is cast.
"[…] ſhift for themselves, and ſeek out new habitations; ſuch caſtlings might in their waudring throughout the South Sea (moſt of the Oriental Iſlands being formerly inhabited by their Off-ſpring) fall with the coaſt of Peru, […]"
- 1 present participle and gerund of castle form-of, gerund, participle, present
Etymology
From cast + -ling.
From Middle English castellinge, equivalent to castle (verb) + -ing.
From Middle English castellinge, equivalent to castle (verb) + -ing.
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