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castling en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkæstlɪŋ/ (US)
  • /ˈkɑːstlɪŋ/ (UK)
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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kas- Proto-Germanic *kastōną Old Norse kastabor. Middle English casten English cast English -ling English castling From cast + -ling.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) An abortion, or a premature birth.
    • 1646: Wherein notwithstanding, we should rather rely upon the urine in a castling’s bladder — Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, ch 5
  2. (obsolete) The second or third swarm of bees which leaves a hive in a season.
  3. A miniature cast or mould.
    • From the Celeste's own image was the first castling molded. A soft, delicate creature of flesh and blood she would call Woman. So that Her castlings may never feel the loneliness she Herself did suffer, she bestowed woman with a mate [...] 2009, Danielle Devon, Divinity in Chains - Page 6:
  4. One that is cast.
    • […] ſhift for themselves, and ſeek out new habitations; ſuch caſtlings might in their waudring throughout the South Sea (moſt of the Oriental Iſlands being formerly inhabited by their Off-ſpring) fall with the coaſt of Peru, […] 1678, Claude Saumaise, Funus linguae hellenisticae, pages 121–122:

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castling en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkɑːsəlɪŋ/ (UK)
  • /ˈkæsəlɪŋ/ (US)

Etymology

From Middle English castellinge, equivalent to castle (verb) + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually) A move in which the king moves two squares towards a rook, and the rook moves to the other side of the king; the action of the verb to castle.
    • Castling is prevented temporarily: […] If there is any piece between the king and the rook with which castling is to be effected. 2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, in FIDE, pages 7, 8:
  2. (uncountable, usually) The act of constructing a defense structure in Japanese chess in which the king (玉) is positioned in a certain way so that it is protected by pawns (歩) and silver general(s) (銀) and/or gold general(s) (金) often with an additional knight (桂) and lance (香車).

Forms

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Translations (36)

fi linnoitus (move in chess) · sl rošada (move in chess) · hu rosálás (move in chess) · pl roszada (move in chess) · io roquo (move in chess) · mk рокада (move in chess) · sh rokada (move in chess) · fi tornitus (move in chess) · eo aroko (move in chess) · sl rokada (move in chess) · hu sáncolás (move in chess) · la adrochatio (move in chess) · is hrókering (move in chess) · ur قِلْعَہ جانا (move in chess) · cmn 王車易位 /王车易位 (move in chess) · ar تَبْيِيت (move in chess) · bg рокада (move in chess) · tr rok (move in chess) · da rokade (move in chess) · pt roque (move in chess) · ru рокиро́вка (move in chess) · it arrocco (move in chess) · et vangerdus (move in chess) · sv rockad (move in chess) · ja キャスリング (move in chess) · es enroque (move in chess) · lv rokāde (move in chess) · sh рокада (move in chess) · fr roque (move in chess) · cs rošáda (move in chess) · he הצרחה (move in chess) · de Rochade (move in chess) · fa قلعه بستن (move in chess) · nl rokade (move in chess) · vi nhập thành (move in chess) · ro rocadă (move in chess)

castling en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkɑːsəlɪŋ/ (UK)
  • /ˈkæsəlɪŋ/ (US)

Etymology

From Middle English castellinge, equivalent to castle (verb) + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of castle
    form of castle