CASTLE-GUARD

  

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CASTLE-GUARD

Definitions: CASTLE-GUARD

CASTLE-GUARD

Noun

1. A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time.

2. A tax or imposition an a dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in it; castle-ward.

3. The guard or defense of a castle.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Historic Usage: CASTLE-GUARD

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

No constable shall compel any knight to give money in lieu of castle-guard, when he is willing to perform it in his own person, or (if he himself cannot do it from any reasonable cause) then by another responsible man. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translations: CASTLE-GUARD

Language Translations for "CASTLE-GUARD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

城 守卫. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

성곽 감시하십시". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

astle-guardcay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: CASTLE-GUARD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-g-l-r-s-t-u"

-2 letters: gastrulae, graduates.

-3 letters: adulates, agrestal, arcuated, cadaster, cadastre, caesural, calderas, cartages, caudates, claustra, gastrula, gestural, gradates, graduals, graduate, sulcated, traduces.

-4 letters: acetals, adulate, alcades, alegars, arcades, arcuate, auldest, aurated, austral, cadgers, caesura, caldera, carates, cartage, cartels, castled, caudate, caudles, cedulas, clarets, cluster, craaled, cradles, crestal, crudest, crusade, crustal, crusted, cudgels, curated, curates, curdles.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CASTLE-GUARD


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 41 53 54 4C 45 2D 47 55 41 52 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01000001 01010011 01010100 01001100 01000101 00101101 01000111 01010101 01000001 01010010 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#83 &#84 &#76 &#69 &#45 &#71 &#85 &#65 &#82 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0053 0054 004C 0045 002D 0047 0055 0041 0052 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

373553544639154155355238

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Historic
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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