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portcullises

n. (plural of portcullis English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: portcullis)

Usage examples of "portcullises".

Soon, two portcullises rose from the pavement of the gate tunnel, sliding along the grooves in a grating of metal against stone.

They were fitted with rams for use in breaching the river portcullises guarding the underflank of the city.

They were the ones who got trampled in the darkness or were pierced by two portcullises that roared and clattered down.

The entryway was S-shaped, with ironwood gates and portcullises at both ends, roofed over its entire length, with walls and ceiling pocked by murder-holes.

A screeching sound suggested that one of the portcullises had stuck, but the visuals of the internal com-system had been out of action for the last few minutes and there was no way of telling what was happening.

Horns jutted from the archway, and spikes lined both portcullises below.

Romans, in hot pursuit, poured inside until the gate operators chopped through the hoist ropes and the portcullises crashed down.

The boughs were often interlaced and grown so low that we had to stoop or even-in several places-crawl on our hands and knees beneath living, needled portcullises that were lowered nearly to the ground.

He and Daryth found themselves walking down a high-ceilinged corridor, where they noted several portcullises partially lowered from the roof.

The entry way was S-shaped, with ironwood gates and portcullises at both ends, roofed over its entire length, with walls and ceiling pocked by murder holes.