castle
ka suhl
- n a large and stately mansion
- n a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack
- n (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
- n interchanging the positions of the king and a rook
- v move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king
- When Potter Palmer built his house on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive in 1882, it had all the appurtenances of a princely European castle except the princes.
- A 17th Century castle had become, last week, a 20th Century shrine.
- Past grazing cows, past a dried-up moat and ivied ruins, a curious procession trudged up the hill to the "haunted" castle of Tiffauges on the old Brittany frontier.