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noun
- A large building that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king.
- A chess piece shaped like a castle tower which is also called a rook.
- (obsolete) A close helmet.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, p. 12,
- : The was perhaps a figurative name for a close headpiece deduced from its enclosing and defending the head, as a castle did the whole body; or a corruption from the Old French word casquetel, a small or light helmet.
verb (castl, ing)
- (chess) To perform the move of castling.
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abbreviation
- Church
- chapter
- (biblical) Book of Chronicles, also see: w:Wiktionary_Appendix:Abbreviations
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noun
- One who check, checks something.
- The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.
- ''There was a long line at the grocery store because the was so slow.
- A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts).
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noun
- A pattern of squares of alternating colours
- A board, usually square, covered with such a pattern; especially such a board with 64 squares, used to play chess and draughts / checkers
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noun
- The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king has no possible move that can remove him from check, the threat of attack.
- (figuratively, by extension) Any situation that has no obvious escape and involves some personal loss.
verb (checkmat, ing)
- (transitive, chess) To put the king of an opponent into checkmate.
- That jerk checkmated me in four moves!
- (transitive, by extension) To lead to a situation that has no obvious escape without some personal loss.
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noun
- A two-player boardgame played with a board of eight rows of eight squares of alternating colours and 16 pieces for each player: eight pawns, two knights, two rooks, two bishops, a queen and a king; the aim is to get the opponent's king in a position on the board such that it cannot avoid being captured (the state known as checkmate).
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noun
- The square board used in the game of chess, subdivided into eight rows of eight squares each, the squares in each row and column being of alternating colours.
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noun
- A reward of victory or a mark of honor.
- A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
- A representation of such a headdress, as in heraldry; it may even be that only the image exists, no physical crown, as in the case of the kingdom of Belgium; by analogy such crowns can be awarded to moral persons that don't even have a head, as the mural crown for cities in heraldry
- A wreath or band for the head.
- Imperial or regal power.
- The topmost part of the head.
- The highest part a hill.
- The top part of a hat.
- The raised centre of a road.
- The highest part of an arch.
- Splendor, finish, culmination.
- achievement
- Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress)
- Specifically, a former British coin worth five shillings.
- (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
- (anatomy) The part of a tooth above the gums.
- (dentistry) A prothestic covering for a tooth.
- (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling
- (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet
verb
- To place a crown on the head of.
- To formally declare (someone) a king or emperor.
- To declare (someone) a winner.
- (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
- The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had just crowned, prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives.
- (context, gaming) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
- (context, board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
- "Crown me!" I said, as I moved my checker to the back row.
adjective
- Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
- prince
- Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
- a fire
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