plural of mailbox

simple past tense and past participle of miniaturise

(biology, geography, uncountable) The study of the geographical distribution of living things. / (biology, geography, countable) The geographical distribution of a particular living thing.

A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes, hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered to impede the advance of an enemy.