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Barbacan :: Barbacan (n.) A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own..

Frigate-built :: Frigate-built (a.) Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.

Deep-waisted :: Deep-waisted (a.) Having a deep waist, as when, in a ship, the poop and forecastle are much elevated above the deck..

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..

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

Bury :: Bury (n.) A manor house; a castle.

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

Castellan :: Castellan (n.) A governor or warden of 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..

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

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

Antemural :: Antemural (n.) An outwork of a strong, high wall, with turrets, in front of the gateway (as of an old castle), for defending the entrance..

Air-built :: Air-built (a.) Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle..

Fortress :: Fortress (n.) A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security..

Incastellated :: Incastellated (a.) Confined or inclosed in a castle.

Castellated :: Castellated (a.) Furnished with turrets and battlements, like a castle; built in the style of a castle..

Dungeon :: Dungeon (n.) A close, dark prison, common/, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons..

Burghbote :: Burghbote (n.) A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town.

Gunwale :: Gunwale (n.) The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull..

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

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