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Castling   Listen
verb
Castle  v. i.  (past & past part. castled; pres. part. castling)  (Chess) To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of covering the king.



noun
Castling  n.  That which is cast or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.



Castling  n.  (Chess) A compound move of the king and castle. See Castle, v. i.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Castling" Quotes from Famous Books



... square at a time, but not diagonally, and only in an enceinte, or court, of four squares,—to wit, his own, the queen's, queen's paw and king's pawn's. Castling is unknown. The two guards remain in the same limits, but can move only diagonally; thus we have in our king both the Chinese king and his guard. The elephants move diagonally, two squares at a time, and cannot pass the river. Their knight moves like ours, but must not ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 32, June, 1860 • Various

... mutual change.] Interchange. — N. interchange, exchange; commutation, permutation, intermutation; reciprocation, transposition, rearrangement; shuffling; alternation, reciprocity; castling [at chess]; hocus-pocus. interchangeableness[obs3], interchangeability. recombination; combination 48[ref], 84.. barter &c. 794; tit for tat &c. (retaliation) 718; cross fire, battledore and shuttlecock; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... alone cost me more than a thousand. Of course one wouldn't need so many, but what with rent, and food, and service, and—what am I thinking of? Why, I've known the man only four weeks, and considering my recent relations with Breckenridge Sewall such mad air-castling is lacking in good taste. Besides, a teacher—a professor! I've always scorned professors. I was predestined to fill a high and influential place. A professor's wife? It is unthinkable! And then abruptly appears a street vender beside me. I smell his ...
— The Fifth Wheel - A Novel • Olive Higgins Prouty



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