castled

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of castle.

   Black castled kingside while White's pieces were still undeveloped.

   By move ten, both players had castled on opposite sides of the board.

   Note

   One spelling serves several games. In chess it is intransitive: Black castled, or has castled kingside, with no object needed, and the same holds in Japanese chess. In cricket the batsman is the object, so the verb turns passive easily: he was castled by a yorker, his stumps knocked over. Before a noun, as in a castled ridge, it is usually the adjective for castle-topped places instead.

   The opener was castled by a yorker in the very first over.

   She castled him with a full-length ball that sent middle stump flying.

2. 2
   adjective

   Furnished or provided with castles; having castles standing upon it.

   The painting depicted a castled ridge rising above a misty valley.

   Tourists admired the castled skyline of the old border town.

   Similarfortified, turreted

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