Defenition of the word castle

Defenition of the word castle
- Historical building or group of building used for defense by military forces, whose main structures are walls and towers.
- A piece of chess commonly shaped like a tower. Each player has two, and they move in straight horizontal or vertical lines across the board.
- a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack
- move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king; in chess
- interchanging the positions of the king and a rook
- the chessman that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
- a large and stately mansion
- (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
- move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king