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Answer for the clue "Move to protect the king, say ", 6 letters:
castle

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Castle is an American crime- comedy-drama television series, which aired on ABC for a total of eight seasons from March 9, 2009 to May 16, 2016. The series is produced jointly by Beacon Pictures and ABC Studios . Created by Andrew W. Marlowe , it primarily ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
move in chess, recorded under this name from 1650s, from castle (n.), as an old alternative name for the rook, one of the pieces moved. Related: Castled ; castling .

Usage examples of castle.

Stopping a few hours at Cape Coast Castle, Accra, and other ports they at last arrived at Bonny.

It had been hard not to run out of the common hall when Agro told them of it, but it would do no good to alarm the castle until they knew what was happening.

It seemed on, the edge of dissolving into grey ruin with everything else that had been steady aild safe and long established in the castle.

As early as 1954, a resourceful Louisville woman paid White Castle to airfreight twelve hamburgers to her brother living in Los Angeles.

In Albania he chanced to knock at the gate of the castle belonging to the head of the powerful Wallenstein clan, where he was duly invited to spend the night.

UIA reports arrived month after month, endlessly piling confusion upon confusion as his three distant enemies across the sea laughed and joked and dealt the cards that spun out their game over the years in the eternal city, as Nubar brooded over hearsay and hints and shadowy allegations in his castle tower in Albania, safe and far away as he wanted to be, as indeed he had to be so great was his fear of the conflicting clues of the Old City that rose above time and the desert, at home in his castle tower safely handling charts and numbers to his satisfaction, safely arranging concepts.

With them, besides Bishop Alcock, was Anthony Widville, now Earl Rivers, who was afterwards to conduct the Prince of Wales to Ludlow Castle and the Marches.

She answered that she would await us at Pont-Carre, an old castle four leagues distant from Paris, and that she would welcome the young princess with all possible kindness.

Meanwhile, Castle launched a frontal assault on the water problem by cracking down on industrial pollution, enforcing compliance with laws already on the books to eliminate poisonous industrial discharges into rivers and streams, and successfully lobbying for laws that gave tax credits to factories that installed antipollution and water-recycling equipment.

Madame Montoni, meantime, as she looked upon Italy, was contemplating in imagination the splendour of palaces and the grandeur of castles, such as she believed she was going to be mistress of at Venice and in the Apennine, and she became, in idea, little less than a princess.

The Ardennes in winter has the look of an old-fashioned Christmas card-steep hills crowned with forests of fir trees, narrow winding rivers, and picture-book villages and quaint old stone castles tucked into deep valleys.

She was standing in the ruins of Castle Drumaird and there was someone with her, an old, old woman with a green plaid or arisaid wrapped over her white hair, her skull-like face peeping out.

She dressed and carefully threaded the heather sprig into the brooch that held her arisaid in place, then gathered her cloak and set out for the castle, anxious to find Ailig.

Elinor recognized the unmistakable voice of Roger Aston, master of Castle Clarisdoune.

Thus he passed the old Dutch town of Schenectady, Johnson Hall and Johnson Castle, Forts Hunter and Herkimer, and at length reached the head of river navigation at Fort Stanwix.