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English Dictionary: 'Castle by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Castle \Cas"tle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Castled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Castling}.] (Chess)
      To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the
      king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the
      purpose of covering the king.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Castle \Cas"tle\, n. [AS. castel, fr. L. castellum, dim. of
      castrum a fortified place, castle.]
      1. A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or
            nobleman; a fortress.
  
                     The house of every one is to him castle and
                     fortress, as well for his defense againts injury and
                     violence, as for his repose.               --Coke.
  
                     Our castle's strength Will laugh a siege to scorn.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      Note: Originally the medi[91]val castle was a single strong
               tower or keep, with a palisaded inclosure around it and
               inferior buidings, such as stables and the like, and
               surrounded by a moat; then such a keep or donjon, with
               courtyards or baileys and accessory buildings of
               greater elaboration a great hall and a chapel, all
               surrounded by defensive walls and a moat, with a
               drawbridge, etc. Afterwards the name was retained by
               large dwellings that had formerly been fortresses, or
               by those which replaced ancient fortresses.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Castle, OK (town, FIPS 12750)
      Location: 35.47510 N, 96.38379 W
      Population (1990): 94 (57 housing units)
      Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 74833

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Castle
      a military fortress (1 Chr. 11:7), also probably a kind of tower
      used by the priests for making known anything discovered at a
      distance (1 Chr. 6:54). Castles are also mentioned (Gen. 25:16)
      as a kind of watch-tower, from which shepherds kept watch over
      their flocks by night. The "castle" into which the chief captain
      commanded Paul to be brought was the quarters of the Roman
      soldiers in the fortress of Antonia (so called by Herod after
      his patron Mark Antony), which was close to the north-west
      corner of the temple (Acts 21:34), which it commanded.
     
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