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Having turrets and battlements
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castellated
Word definitions for castellated in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (of a building) having turrets and battlements in the style of a castle [syn: battlemented , castled , crenelated , crenellated ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"furnished with turrets and battlements," 1670s, from Medieval Latin castellatus "built like a castle," past participle of castellare "to fortify as a castle," from Latin castellum "fort" (see castle (n.)). Related: Castellation .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Having turrets or battlements, like a castle. 2 (context obsolete English) Enclosed within a building.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Castellated \Cas"tel*la`ted\, a. [LL. castellatus, fr. castellare. See Castle .] Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated. [Obs.] --Johnson. Furnished with turrets and battlements, like a castle; built in the style of a castle.
Usage examples of castellated.
On either side of the Truckee great sierras rose like walls, castellated, embattled, rifted, skirted and crowned with pines of enormous size, the walls now and then breaking apart to show some snow-slashed peak rising into a heaven of intense, unclouded, sunny blue.
Mu-there in the hidden Valley of the Mu, which Sango Lobango surrounded with its castellated cliffs.
Mu -- there in the hidden Valley of the Mu, which Sango Lobango surrounded with its castellated cliffs.
This was done by riveting, soldering, the use of tenons and dovetailing castellated edges.
The castellated lip was sealed by a stopper that appeared to be a single rose-opal.
The crystal seemed full of milk on the boil and milky lather foamed in the opening of the castellated mouth.
Presently, a foot-high figurine balanced on the air, just over the castellated lip of the vase.
They were now off the roof, the city beneath themthe spires and turrets, the guarded parapets of garrisons and heliports, the black streets, the castellated heights and smoky distances.
In Abbotstanding, an almost ruinous castellated mansion of great antiquity and once the hunting-lodge of the Abbots of Beaulieu, he found what he sought and, certain necessary repairs having been effected, we settled finally into our home.
In Abbotstanding, an almost ruinous castellated mansion of great antiquity and once the hunting lodge of the Abbots of Beaulieu, he found what he sought and, certain necessary repairs having been effected, we settled finally into our home.
Now and then, as our position changed, rocky bastions swung out from the wall, a mimic ruin of castellated ramparts and crumbling towers clothed with mosses and hung with garlands of swaying vines, and as we moved on they swung back again and hid themselves once more in the foliage.
On the right bank, two or three miles below the Spectacular Ruin, we passed by a noble pile of castellated buildings overlooking the water from the crest of a lofty elevation.
Those nobles bided within their castellated halls, locked their gates each sundown, slept lightly and with a pillow-sword close to hand.
Far above shot up red, splintered masses of castellated rock, jagged and shivered into myriads of fantastic forms, with here and there a streak of sunlit snow traced down their chasms like a line of forked lightning.