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Castled

Castle \Cas"tle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Castled; p. pr. & vb. n. Castling.] (Chess) To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of covering the king.

Castled

Castled \Cas"tled\, a. Having a castle or castles; supporting a castle; as, a castled height or crag.

2. Fortified; turreted; as, castled walls.

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castled

vb. (en-past of: castle)

WordNet
castled

adj. (of a building) having turrets and battlements in the style of a castle [syn: battlemented, castellated, crenelated, crenellated]

Usage examples of "castled".

Oh, he knew the rules, and the rudiments, and even some of the refinements, but he had no grasp whatsoever of such instruments as the gambit, the knight fork, or the defrocked bishop, and while he was all too eager to demonstrate he knew how to castle, he castled kingside when he should have castled queenside, and he castled either side when he did not need to castle at all.

There are pins and counter-pins, attacks and latent and discovered attacks, and White's threat to break up Black's castled position.