单词 | cat-castle |
释义 | > as lemmascat-castle cat-castle n. (see 6). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > engine of war > [noun] > siege-tower belfryc1300 mate-griffonc1330 summercastle1382 bastillec1400 towerc1440 summertowera1450 bestial1488 bastide1523 turret1565 timber-tower1614 helepole1770 cat-castle1861 1861 Chambers's Encycl. II. 668/1 Cat, or cat-castle, in the military engineering of the middle ages, was a kind of movable tower to cover the sappers as they advanced to a besieged place. 1907 Collingwood in Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archæol. Soc. (1908) 8 100 ‘Catcastle’ in local [Kendal] dialect is the second figure in the game of Cat's-cradle. < as lemmas |
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