English words for 'A small castle.'
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- (rare) A castle or other fortification.
- A bad deal; a rip-off.
- (chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
- A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
- (baseball, slang) A rookie.
- (British) A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
- A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
- mist; fog; roke
- (uncountable) A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
- common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
- (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
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- the outer courtyard of a castle
- The outer wall of a feudal castle.
- the outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle
- (in certain proper names) A prison or court of justice.
- The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress.
- An argument which is controversial and more difficult to defend (in the context of a motte and bailey fallacy).
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- (architecture) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
- a small tower extending above a building
- (machining, manufacturing) A turret head.
- (electronics) A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
- (gambling) The central conical ornament atop a spinning roulette wheel.
- (rail transport) The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.
- (military) An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.
- (historical, military) A siege tower; a movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.
- a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation
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- A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town.
- a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle)
- An opening in the wall of a fortress through which the guns are levelled; a narrow loophole through which arrows and other missiles may be shot.
- A temporary wooden tower built for defensive purposes.
- A fortress at the end of a bridge.
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- a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle
- (historical, military) A subterranean passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks.
- (architecture) A back gate, back door, side entrance, or other gateway distinct from the main entrance, especially in a city wall or fortification.
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- (historical) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
- The verse form rondeau.
- (historical) A long thin medieval dagger with a circular guard and a circular pommel (hence the name).
- A metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two.
- A rondelle, (small) circular object.
- a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas
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- the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
- a dark cell (usually underground) where prisoners can be confined
- (BDSM) A room dedicated to sadomasochistic sexual activity.
- (roleplaying games) An area inhabited by enemies, containing story objectives, treasure, and bosses.
- An underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle.
- The low area between two drumlins.
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- the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
- a cell in a jail or prison
- the financial means whereby one lives
- The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
- (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
- (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
- The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
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- hold and prevent from leaving
- supply with room and board
- retain possession of
- prevent the action or expression of
- behave as expected during holidays or rites
- stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
- to rear
- store or keep customarily
- maintain for use and service
- retain rights to
- look after; be the keeper of; have charge of
- have as a supply
- supply with necessities and support
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
- fail to spoil or rot
- stick to correctly or closely
- maintain by writing regular records
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- conform one's action or practice to
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- prevent (food) from rotting
- (transitive, Singapore, Wales) To put (something) back (to its original location or appropriate place); to put away.
- (transitive) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
- (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate.
- To have habitually in stock for sale.
- (ditransitive) To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state.
- (transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
- (of living things) To raise; to care for.
- To restrain.
- (transitive) To remain faithful to a given promise or word.
- (transitive) To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
- (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
- (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
- To maintain possession of.
- To supply with necessities and financially support (a person).
- To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret).
- To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
- To remain edible or otherwise usable.
- To continue.
- (copulative) To remain in a state.
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- A castle in Germany.
- A municipality of Bad Kreuznach district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, named after the castle and village.
- A metonym for a person:
- A village in Germany, renamed after the castle.
- Ellipsis of Gutenberg Bible, the first mass production printing project of the Gutenberg press.
- A lunar crater.
- Ellipsis of Project Gutenberg, a digital library founded in 1971.
- Johannes Gutenberg, a German printer who developed European movable type.
- A habitational surname from German.
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- (rare) Housed or kept in a castle.
- Castled: having or furnished with castles.
- Castle-like: built or shaped like a castle; usually, specifically, having castellations (crenellations).
- (engineering) Having grooves or recesses on an upper face.
- having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement
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- a small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate
- a shelter or screen providing protection from enemy fire or from the weather
- a decorative wall bracket for holding candles or other sources of light
- a candle or flaming torch secured in a sconce
- (architecture) A squinch.
- A poll tax; a mulct or fine.
- A type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford.
- A fragment of a floe of ice.
- A head or a skull.
- A fixed seat or shelf.
- A candlestick (holder for a candle, especially a circular tube, with a brim, into which a candle is inserted), either with a handle for carrying, or with a bracket for attaching to a wall.
- A fixture for a light, which holds it and provides a screen against wind or against a naked flame or lightbulb.
- (Oxford University slang) An act of sconcing; very similar to a fine at Cambridge University, though a sconce is the act of issuing a penalty rather than the penalty itself.
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- the large room of a manor or castle
- a large building used by a college or university for teaching or research
- a large building for meetings or entertainment
- a large and imposing house
- a college or university building containing living quarters for students
- an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open
- a large room for gatherings, receiving guests, or entertainment
- a large entrance or reception room or area
- The principal room of a secular medieval building.
- A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
- A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
- A building providing student accommodation at a university.
- A corridor; a hallway.
- (Oxbridge) A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.
- A large meeting room.
- (India) A living room.
- (Oxbridge slang) A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.
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- A small village and castle in Ewart parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NT9331).
- A small village in Warcop parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY7118).
- A small city in Williamson County, Texas, United States.
- (countable) A habitational surname from Old Norse.
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- (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
- (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- (by extension, in combination) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- (slang, hip-hop, chiefly in the plural) Hip-hop lyrics, especially ones written and delivered skillfully.
- (recreational drugs) A small, tablet-shaped dose of Xanax, typically containing two milligrams and able to be split into quarters.
- (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- (slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
- (programming, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- (US, Philippines, law, usually with the) The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
- (physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
- (UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- (by extension, slang, chiefly in the plural) Something well-said or well-written.
- (farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- (typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- (mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
- (figurative) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome; a standard or expectation.
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, slightly less than atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- (UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water; a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- The counter of such premises.
- (soccer, most codes) The crossbar.
- (law, metonymic, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
- (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially:
- (telecommunications, electronics) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
- a counter where you can obtain food or drink
- the act of preventing
- a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
- (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter
- an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal
- a heating element in an electric fire
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore
- (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried
- a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon
- a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
- a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
- a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises
- the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction
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- A large residential building or compound that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king. Also, a house or mansion with some of the architectural features of medieval castles.
- (cricket, colloquial) The wicket.
- (shogi) A defense structure in shogi formed by defensive pieces surrounding the king.
- (chess) An instance of castling.
- (chess, informal) A rook; a chess piece shaped like a castle tower.
- a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack
- interchanging the positions of the king and a rook
- a large and stately mansion
- (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
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- (transitive, figurative) To protect or separate in a similar way.
- (usually intransitive, shogi) To create a similar defensive position in Japanese chess through several moves.
- (usually intransitive, chess) 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.
- (cricket) To bowl a batsman with a full-length ball or yorker such that the stumps are knocked over.
- (transitive) To house or keep in a castle.
- move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king
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- A small chapel or shrine.
- A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding.
- (botany) A series of spores or other objects arranged like beads on a string.
- A metal support for a cylindrical pipe.
- (Catholicism) A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.
- A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.
- A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
- (specifically) The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church.
- A garland or circlet for the head.
- Alternative form of chapelet.
- flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes
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- (historical) A fortified room over the entrance to a castle or over the gate in a city wall
- A shelter for a gatekeeper.
- A lodge besides the entrance to an estate; often the residence of a gatekeeper; also a dwelling formerly used as such a residence.
- a house built at a gateway; usually the gatekeeper's residence
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- A small village in Richard's Castle parish, south Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO5072).
- A suburb of Frodsham, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5277).
- A hamlet in Checkley parish, Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0438).
- A hamlet in Arlingham parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7210).
- A township in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
- A village in Dawson County, Nebraska.
- A city in Rusk County and Smith County, Texas.
- A village and civil parish in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU5149).
- A former civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, merged into Malpas civil parish in 2015.
- A suburb of Greenock, Inverclyde council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS2675).
- An unincorporated community in Cooper County, Missouri.
- A community in Moapa Valley, Clark County, Nevada.
- A hamlet near Lybster, Caithness, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref ND2836).
- A hamlet in West Monkton parish, Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST2628).
- An unincorporated community in Wayne County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia.
- A village and community in Wrexham borough county borough, Wales, historically in a detached part of Flintshire (OS grid ref SJ3741).
- (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.
- A hamlet near Port Eynon, City and County of Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS4685).
- A hamlet in Ashover parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3462).
- A village next to Middlestown, City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2516).
- A hamlet near New Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NX9864).
- A village and civil parish in City of Lancaster district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4358).
- A small village and civil parish (without a council) in Hambleton district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5555).
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- A medieval manor in Devon, England.
- An unincorporated community in Georgia; named for Raleigh Bowden.
- A male given name, transferred from the surname.
- A neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee; named for the city in North Carolina.
- A census-designated place in Florida.
- A census-designated place in North Dakota; named for Sir Walter Raleigh.
- A town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; named for Sir Walter Raleigh.
- The capital city of North Carolina, United States and the county seat of Wake County; named for Sir Walter Raleigh.
- An English habitational surname from the manor in England.
- Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer and soldier.
- A locality in the Bellingen council area, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.
- An unincorporated community in Indiana; named for the city in North Carolina.
- An unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia; named for its county, which was named for Sir Walter Raleigh.
- A village in Illinois; named for the city in North Carolina.
- An unincorporated community in Iowa.
- A town, the county seat of Smith County, Mississippi; named for Sir Walter Raleigh.
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- small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener
- a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
- a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter
- a formal association of people with similar interests
- any of various Native American dwellings
- (historical) A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.
- A collection of objects lodged together.
- An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
- A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
- Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.
- A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
- (US) A local chapter of a trade union.
- (mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
- A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
- A den or cave.
- A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
- The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
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- be a lodger; stay temporarily
- put, fix, force, or implant
- file a formal charge against
- provide housing for
- (transitive) To drive (an animal) to covert.
- (transitive) To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
- (transitive) To firmly fix in a specified position.
- (intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
- (intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
- (intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
- (transitive, chiefly law, politics) To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
- (transitive) To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
- (intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.
- (transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
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- A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.
- (British) A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
- (Australia) A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.
- (Philippines) An exclusive gated community; a subdivision.
- a settlement smaller than a town
- a community of people smaller than a town
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- (rare) A castle or other fortification.
- A bad deal; a rip-off.
- (chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
- A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
- (baseball, slang) A rookie.
- (British) A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
- A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
- mist; fog; roke
- (uncountable) A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
- common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
- (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
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- the outer courtyard of a castle
- The outer wall of a feudal castle.
- the outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle
- (in certain proper names) A prison or court of justice.
- The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress.
- An argument which is controversial and more difficult to defend (in the context of a motte and bailey fallacy).
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- (architecture) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
- a small tower extending above a building
- (machining, manufacturing) A turret head.
- (electronics) A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
- (gambling) The central conical ornament atop a spinning roulette wheel.
- (rail transport) The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.
- (military) An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.
- (historical, military) A siege tower; a movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.
- a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation
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- A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town.
- a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle)
- An opening in the wall of a fortress through which the guns are levelled; a narrow loophole through which arrows and other missiles may be shot.
- A temporary wooden tower built for defensive purposes.
- A fortress at the end of a bridge.
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- a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle
- (historical, military) A subterranean passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks.
- (architecture) A back gate, back door, side entrance, or other gateway distinct from the main entrance, especially in a city wall or fortification.
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- (historical) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
- The verse form rondeau.
- (historical) A long thin medieval dagger with a circular guard and a circular pommel (hence the name).
- A metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two.
- A rondelle, (small) circular object.
- a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas
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- the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
- a dark cell (usually underground) where prisoners can be confined
- (BDSM) A room dedicated to sadomasochistic sexual activity.
- (roleplaying games) An area inhabited by enemies, containing story objectives, treasure, and bosses.
- An underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle.
- The low area between two drumlins.
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- the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
- a cell in a jail or prison
- the financial means whereby one lives
- The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
- (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
- (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
- The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
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- hold and prevent from leaving
- supply with room and board
- retain possession of
- prevent the action or expression of
- behave as expected during holidays or rites
- stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
- to rear
- store or keep customarily
- maintain for use and service
- retain rights to
- look after; be the keeper of; have charge of
- have as a supply
- supply with necessities and support
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
- fail to spoil or rot
- stick to correctly or closely
- maintain by writing regular records
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- conform one's action or practice to
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- prevent (food) from rotting
- (transitive, Singapore, Wales) To put (something) back (to its original location or appropriate place); to put away.
- (transitive) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
- (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate.
- To have habitually in stock for sale.
- (ditransitive) To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state.
- (transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
- (of living things) To raise; to care for.
- To restrain.
- (transitive) To remain faithful to a given promise or word.
- (transitive) To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
- (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
- (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
- To maintain possession of.
- To supply with necessities and financially support (a person).
- To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret).
- To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
- To remain edible or otherwise usable.
- To continue.
- (copulative) To remain in a state.
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- a small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate
- a shelter or screen providing protection from enemy fire or from the weather
- a decorative wall bracket for holding candles or other sources of light
- a candle or flaming torch secured in a sconce
- (architecture) A squinch.
- A poll tax; a mulct or fine.
- A type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford.
- A fragment of a floe of ice.
- A head or a skull.
- A fixed seat or shelf.
- A candlestick (holder for a candle, especially a circular tube, with a brim, into which a candle is inserted), either with a handle for carrying, or with a bracket for attaching to a wall.
- A fixture for a light, which holds it and provides a screen against wind or against a naked flame or lightbulb.
- (Oxford University slang) An act of sconcing; very similar to a fine at Cambridge University, though a sconce is the act of issuing a penalty rather than the penalty itself.
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- the large room of a manor or castle
- a large building used by a college or university for teaching or research
- a large building for meetings or entertainment
- a large and imposing house
- a college or university building containing living quarters for students
- an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open
- a large room for gatherings, receiving guests, or entertainment
- a large entrance or reception room or area
- The principal room of a secular medieval building.
- A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
- A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
- A building providing student accommodation at a university.
- A corridor; a hallway.
- (Oxbridge) A college's canteen, which is often but not always coterminous with a traditional hall.
- A large meeting room.
- (India) A living room.
- (Oxbridge slang) A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.
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- (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
- (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- (by extension, in combination) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- (slang, hip-hop, chiefly in the plural) Hip-hop lyrics, especially ones written and delivered skillfully.
- (recreational drugs) A small, tablet-shaped dose of Xanax, typically containing two milligrams and able to be split into quarters.
- (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- (slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
- (programming, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- (US, Philippines, law, usually with the) The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
- (physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
- (UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- (by extension, slang, chiefly in the plural) Something well-said or well-written.
- (farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- (typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- (mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
- (figurative) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome; a standard or expectation.
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, slightly less than atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- (UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water; a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- The counter of such premises.
- (soccer, most codes) The crossbar.
- (law, metonymic, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
- (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially:
- (telecommunications, electronics) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
- a counter where you can obtain food or drink
- the act of preventing
- a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
- (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter
- an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal
- a heating element in an electric fire
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore
- (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried
- a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon
- a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
- a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
- a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises
- the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction
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- A large residential building or compound that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king. Also, a house or mansion with some of the architectural features of medieval castles.
- (cricket, colloquial) The wicket.
- (shogi) A defense structure in shogi formed by defensive pieces surrounding the king.
- (chess) An instance of castling.
- (chess, informal) A rook; a chess piece shaped like a castle tower.
- a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack
- interchanging the positions of the king and a rook
- a large and stately mansion
- (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
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- (transitive, figurative) To protect or separate in a similar way.
- (usually intransitive, shogi) To create a similar defensive position in Japanese chess through several moves.
- (usually intransitive, chess) 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.
- (cricket) To bowl a batsman with a full-length ball or yorker such that the stumps are knocked over.
- (transitive) To house or keep in a castle.
- move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king
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- A small chapel or shrine.
- A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding.
- (botany) A series of spores or other objects arranged like beads on a string.
- A metal support for a cylindrical pipe.
- (Catholicism) A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.
- A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.
- A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
- (specifically) The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church.
- A garland or circlet for the head.
- Alternative form of chapelet.
- flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes
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- (historical) A fortified room over the entrance to a castle or over the gate in a city wall
- A shelter for a gatekeeper.
- A lodge besides the entrance to an estate; often the residence of a gatekeeper; also a dwelling formerly used as such a residence.
- a house built at a gateway; usually the gatekeeper's residence
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- small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener
- a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
- a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter
- a formal association of people with similar interests
- any of various Native American dwellings
- (historical) A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.
- A collection of objects lodged together.
- An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
- A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
- Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.
- A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
- (US) A local chapter of a trade union.
- (mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
- A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
- A den or cave.
- A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
- The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
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- be a lodger; stay temporarily
- put, fix, force, or implant
- file a formal charge against
- provide housing for
- (transitive) To drive (an animal) to covert.
- (transitive) To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
- (transitive) To firmly fix in a specified position.
- (intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
- (intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
- (intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
- (transitive, chiefly law, politics) To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
- (transitive) To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
- (intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.
- (transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
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- A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.
- (British) A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
- (Australia) A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.
- (Philippines) An exclusive gated community; a subdivision.
- a settlement smaller than a town
- a community of people smaller than a town
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- (rare) Housed or kept in a castle.
- Castled: having or furnished with castles.
- Castle-like: built or shaped like a castle; usually, specifically, having castellations (crenellations).
- (engineering) Having grooves or recesses on an upper face.
- having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement