English Dictionary

castle

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkɑːsəl/

動詞

他動詞 比喩的用法 廃用 自動詞 通常

(transitive) To house or keep in a castle. / (transitive, figuratively) To protect or separate in a similar way.

日本語の意味

城に居住させる、または城に収容する、すなわち城を利用して保護または隔離すること。 / 比喩的に、同様の方法で対象を保護または隔離すること。

They decided to castle the crown jewels in the ancient keep for safekeeping.

彼らは王冠の宝石を安全のために古い城に収めることにした。

意味（1）

(transitive) To house or keep in a castle.

...to encastle, to Castle.

意味（2）

(transitive, figuratively) To protect or separate in a similar way.

Castle me in the armes of thy everlasting strength.

意味（3）

(obsolete) To make into a castle: to build in the form of a castle or add (real or imitation) battlements to an existing building.

...Bake metes and dish metes... peynted and castelled with papir...

意味（4）

(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.

He [i.e., the king] may change (or Castle) with this Rooke, that is, he may goe two draughts at once towards this Rooke... causing the Rooke to stand next to him on either side.

意味（5）

(usually intransitive, shogi) To create a similar defensive position in Japanese chess through several moves.

意味（6）

(cricket) To bowl a batsman with a full-length ball or yorker such that the stumps are knocked over.

And the 23-year-old brought the crowd to their feet when he castled Gayle's stumps, signalling the direction of the pavilion to his friend for good measure.

castles （ present singular third-person ）

castling （ participle present ）

castled （ participle past ）

castled （ past ）