[kas-uh
l, kah-suhl] 
noun, verb, -tled, -tling.| 1. | a fortified, usually walled residence, as of a prince or noble in feudal times. |
| 2. | the chief and strongest part of the fortifications of a medieval city. |
| 3. | a strongly fortified, permanently garrisoned stronghold. |
| 4. | a large and stately residence, esp. one, with high walls and towers, that imitates the form of a medieval castle. |
| 5. | any place providing security and privacy: It may be small, but my home is my castle. |
| 6. | Chess. the rook. |
| 7. | to place or enclose in or as in a castle. |
| 8. | Chess. to move (the king) in castling. |
| 9. | to move the king two squares horizontally and bring the appropriate rook to the square the king has passed over. |
| 10. | (of the king) to be moved in this manner. |
[kas-uhl, kah-suhl] | Irene (Foote), 1893–1969, born in the U.S., and her husband and partner Vernon (Vernon Castle Blythe), 1887–1918, born in England, U.S. ballroom dancers. |
| German, Das Schloss), a novel (1926) by Franz Kafka. |
| cas·tle (kās'əl) n.
v. intr. Games To move the king in chess from its own square two empty squares to one side and then, in the same move, bring the rook from that side to the square immediately past the new position of the king. v. tr.
[Middle English castel, from Old English and from Norman French, both from Latin castellum, diminutive of castrum; see kes- in Indo-European roots.] |
| Cas·tle (kās'əl) British-born dancer who together with his wife, Irene Foote Castle (1893-1969), gained recognition for innovative dancing. |
| rook 2 (rŏŏk) n. Abbr. R A chess piece that may move in a straight line over any number of empty squares in a rank or file. Also called castle. [Middle English rok, from Old French roc, from Arabic ruḫḫ, from Persian.] |
Castle
a military fortress (1 Chr. 11:7), also probably a kind of tower used by the priests for making known anything discovered at a distance (1 Chr. 6:54). Castles are also mentioned (Gen. 25:16) as a kind of watch-tower, from which shepherds kept watch over their flocks by night. The "castle" into which the chief captain commanded Paul to be brought was the quarters of the Roman soldiers in the fortress of Antonia (so called by Herod after his patron Mark Antony), which was close to the north-west corner of the temple (Acts 21:34), which it commanded.