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单词 castling
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castlingn.1

/ˈkɑːstlɪŋ//ˈkastlɪŋ/
Etymology: < cast adj.2 or cast n. + diminutive suffix -ling suffix1.
Obsolete.
1. The offspring of an untimely birth, an abortion.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > abortion > [noun] > aborted fetus
castling1580
abortion1581
abortment1614
effluxion1643
abortus1687
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Avorton, that which is brought forth before the tyme, a castling.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cadel, a castling, a starueling.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 84 We should rather relie upon the urine in a Castlings bladder. View more context for this quotation
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. ii. 106 Castling Foles of Balams Ass.
1704 Dict. Rusticum at Wet-Glover Castling skins..are slender, thin and gentle.
2. The second (or third) swarm which leaves a hive in the season; = cast n. 18. Also transferred.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > swarm of bees > second of season
after-swarm1609
castling1634
casta1661
piper1884
1634 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie (new ed.) i. 5 17 [queen bees]: one whereof went forth with the prime swarm, 5 were browght out ded fowr days before the Castling rose, other five came forth with the Castling.
1634 J. Levett Ordering of Bees 27 When you have a second swarme or castling (as some call it).
1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie Introd. sig. B4 Those Countries were of an elder Plantation, than to be a second or third Castling of some other Swarm.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. iv. §11. 562 Not to have been that ancient people but rather some latter Castlings.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

castlingn.2

Brit. /ˈkɑːsl̩ɪŋ/, /ˈkɑːslɪŋ/, /ˈkasl̩ɪŋ/, /ˈkaslɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkæsəlɪŋ/
Chess.
The action of castle v. 3.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > strategy > specific strategies or tactics
unpinning1607
defence1614
fork1656
attack1733
backgame1750
castling1813
exchange1823
pin1868
fringe-variation1898
fidation1910
sacrifice1915
unpin1922
pawn storm1926
Siesta variation1935
liquidation1965
sac1965
1813 Monthly Rev. LXXII. 355 His games are drawn up as if Castling was not in use.
1880 Boy's Own Bk. (new ed.) 586 Castling is a compound move of king and castle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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