castle

castle
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. fort[ress], stronghold; donjon, keep; rook. See defense, abode.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. stronghold, manor, fortress, ch?teau, citadel, seat, villa, keep, donjon, fort, hold, safehold, refuge, fastness, acropolis, alcazar; see also building 1 , fortification 2 , palace .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
fortress, citadel, stronghold, keep, manor, chateau, mansion, alcazar.
WORD FIND
• attack on: siege
• bottlery: buttery
• bridge spanning moat: drawbridge
• candle storeoom: chandlery
• castle used as a prison: bastille
• circular turret with a conical roof: pepperbox turret
• crossbow storage room: ballistraria
• domestic official in charge of supplies: chamberlain, seneschal, steward
• door, huge, grated: portcullis
• doorman: usher
• fort surrounded by fortified village: castellum
• gateway, minor: postern
• governor of: castellan
• holes or slits through which archers shoot: archeria, arrow loops, loopholes, balistraria, murder holes
• knight’s practice yard: tiltyard
• lady of: chatelaine
• lights: rushlights
• main inner tower, keep: donjon
• mass of earth: bastion, rampart
• mobile tower used by attackers to reach castle defenders: belfry
• notched parapet: battlement
• notches, solid area between: merlon
• notch in parapet: crenel
• outer wall ringing castle: curtain wall
• owner: lord
• privy: garderobe
• roof wall: parapet
• seating platform of lord: dais
• siege engine used against: catapult, mangon, trebuchet
• small tower above main structure: turret
• sunny family room: solar
• timber tower: brattice
• tower/structure protecting a drawbridge: barbican, gatehouse
• trench around: moat
• turret that overhangs: bartizan
• underground prison: dungeon
• waste receptacle: cess pit
• yard area within outer walls: ward, bailey, courtyard

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