Castling

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkɑːstlɪŋ/

From cast + -ling.

Full definition of castling

Noun

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkɑːsÉ™lɪŋ/

From castle.

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• sclating