castling

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɑːstlɪŋ/    美 /ˈkæstlɪŋ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An abortion, or a premature birth. obsolete
    — 1646: Wherein notwithstanding, we should rather rely upon the urine in a castling’s bladder — Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, ch 5
  2. A move in which the king moves two squares towards a rook, and the rook moves to the other side of the king; the action of the verb to castle. uncountable,usually
    — Castling is prevented temporarily: […] If there is any piece between the king and the rook with which castling is to be effected.
  3. The second or third swarm of bees which leaves a hive in a season. obsolete
  4. The act of constructing a defense structure in Japanese chess in which the king (玉) is positioned in a certain way so that it is protected by pawns (歩) and silver general(s) (銀) and/or gold general(s) (金) often with an additional knight (桂) and lance (香車). uncountable,usually
  5. A miniature cast or mould.
    — From the Celeste's own image was the first castling molded. A soft, delicate creature of flesh and blood she would call Woman. So that Her castlings may never feel the loneliness she Herself did suffer, she bestowed woman with a mate [...]
  6. One that is cast.
    — […] ſhift for themselves, and ſeek out new habitations; ſuch caſtlings might in their waudring throughout the South Sea (moſt of the Oriental Iſlands being formerly inhabited by their Off-ſpring) fall with the coaſt of Peru, […]
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of castle form-of,gerund,participle,present

词形变化

castlings plural castlings plural

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *kas-
Proto-Germanic *kastōną
Old Norse kastabor.
Middle English casten
English cast
English -ling
English castling
From cast + -ling.
词源 2
From Middle English castellinge, equivalent to castle (verb) + -ing.
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