Countercastle
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Countercastle is a noun meaning Alternative form of counter-castle.
Meaning
Alternative form of counter-castle.
Example Sentences
These simple countercastle structures were all the more remarkable in that they proliferated at the same time that timber castles were giving way to stone ones.
When the king in 1136 began his policy of surrounding Ascalon by a ring of countercastles and built the castle at Beth Gibelin and entrusted it to the Knights of St. John, the patriarch was present.
A countercastle could have been a base for what we might call a semisiege; not a full-scale containment to a castle or city but a neutralizing effort in which a moderate garrison could make foraging for food and resupplying difficult but not impossible.
Word Forms
- countercastles
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include countermagic, chatellany, counter revolution, counter-terrorist, countercultist, duodecastyle.
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