Word Meanings - UNCASTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To take a castle from; to turn out of a castle.

CASTLEWARD
See CASTLEGUARD
CASTLE
1. A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress. The house of every one is to him castle and fortress, as well for his defense againts injury and violence, as for his repose. Coke. Our castle's strength Will laugh
CASTLET
A small castle. Leland.
CASTLERY
The government of a castle. Blount.
CASTLEBUILDER
Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes. -- Cas"tle*build`ing, n.
CASTLED
Having a castle or castles; supporting a castle; as, a castled height or crag. 2. Fortified; turreted; as, castled walls.
CASTLE-GUARD
A tax or imposition an a dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in it; castle-ward. 3. A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time.
UNCASTLE
To take a castle from; to turn out of a castle.
FORECASTLE
A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks. That part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels. In merchant vessels, the forward part of the vessel,