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Piece :: Piece (n.) A castle; a fortified building.

In :: In (prep.) With reference to space or place; as, he lives in Boston; he traveled in Italy; castles in the air..

Castlet :: Castlet (n.) A small castle.

Machicolation :: Machicolation (n.) An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle..

Castellation :: Castellation (n.) The act of making into a castle.

Ancient :: Ancient (a.) Old; that has been of long duration; of long standing; of great age; as, an ancient forest; an ancient castle..

Hold :: Hold (n.) A place of security; a fortified place; a fort; a castle; -- often called a stronghold.

Bastile Bastille :: Bastile Bastille (n.) The Bastille, formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison..

Chaldron :: Chaldron (n.) An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exclusively for coal and coke..

Castellany :: Castellany (n.) The lordship of a castle; the extent of land and jurisdiction appertaining to a castle.

Hall :: Hall (n.) The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment..

Bluebeard :: Bluebeard (n.) The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate..

Waistcloth :: Waistcloth (n.) A covering of canvas or tarpaulin for the hammocks, stowed on the nettings, between the quarterdeck and the forecastle..

Castle :: Castle (n.) Any strong, imposing, and stately mansion..

Moat :: Moat (n.) A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch..

Castlebuilder :: Castlebuilder (n.) Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes.

Echauguette :: Echauguette (n.) A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See Castle..

Keep :: Keep (n.) That which keeps or protects; a stronghold; a fortress; a castle; specifically, the strongest and securest part of a castle, often used as a place of residence by the lord of the castle, especially during a siege; the donjon. See Illust. of Castle..

Boyer :: Boyer (n.) A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end.

Uncastle :: Uncastle (v. t.) To take a castle from; to turn out of a castle.

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