castling

See also: Castling

English

Etymology 1

From cast +‎ -ling.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːstlɪŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkæstlɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

castling (plural castlings)

1. (obsolete) An abortion, or a premature birth.
   • 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. (obsolete) The second or third swarm of bees which leaves a hive in a season.
3. A miniature cast or mould.
   • 2009, Danielle Devon, Divinity in Chains - Page 6:

     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 [...]

4. One that is cast.
   • 1678, Claude Saumaise, Funus linguae hellenisticae:

     [...] 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 by their Off-spring) fall with the coast of Term Primitive Language.

Etymology 2

From Middle English castellinge, equivalent to castle (verb) +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːsəlɪŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkæsəlɪŋ/

Noun

castling (usually uncountable, plural castlings)

1. (chess) 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.
2. (shogi) 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).

Translations

move in chess

• Arabic: تَبْيِيت m (tabyīt)
• Bulgarian: рокада (bg) f (rokada)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 王車易位／王车易位 (wáng-jū yìwèi)

• Czech: rošáda f
• Danish: rokade c
• Dutch: rokade (nl) f
• Esperanto: aroko
• Estonian: vangerdus
• Finnish: linnoitus (fi), tornitus (fi)
• French: roque (fr) m
• German: Rochade (de) f
• Hebrew: הצרחה (he) f
• Hungarian: sáncolás (hu), rosálás (hu) sg
• Icelandic: hrókering f
• Ido: roquo (io)
• Italian: arrocco (it)
• Japanese: キャスリング (ja) (kyasuringu)
• Latin: adrochatio f
• Latvian: rokāde
• Macedonian: рокада f (rokada)
• Persian: قلعه بستن (qal'e bastan)
• Polish: roszada (pl) f
• Portuguese: roque (pt) m
• Romanian: rocadă (ro) f
• Russian: рокиро́вка (ru) f (rokiróvka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рокада

  Roman: rokada (sh)

• Slovene: rošada f, rokada f
• Spanish: enroque (es) m
• Swedish: rockad (sv)
• Turkish: rok (tr)
• Urdu: قِلْعَہ جانا m (qil'a jānā)
• Vietnamese: nhập thành (vi)

Verb

castling

1. present participle and gerund of castle

Anagrams

• catlings, sclating