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UK
/pˈɔːtkəlˌiz/
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NOUN
- gate consisting of an iron or wooden grating that hangs in the entry to a castle or fortified town; can be lowered to prevent passage
How To Use portcullis In A Sentence
- Behind the portcullis was a thick oaken door studded with steel. The Cloister and the Hearth
- The gateway had what is called a portcullis; that is, a heavy iron gate suspended by chains, so as to rise and fall. Rollo in Scotland
- To create a medieval feel, the towers will have arrow slits and cars will be able to drive under the archway beneath a raised portcullis.
- If he was admitted, the iron grating ( "portcullis") rose slowly on its creaking pulleys, the heavy, wooden doors swung open, and he found himself in the courtyard commanded by the great central tower ( "keep"), where the lord and his family lived, especially in time of war. Early European History
- The gateway was equipped with a portcullis, but it was raised and the entry was protected only by a light, almost ornamental iron lattice.
- This is meant to convey a sense of security and privacy: the drawbridge is pulled up and the portcullis is dropped.
- They rode into the outer courtyard, through the muckle faulding yetts and aneath the auld portcullis; and the whole front of the house was lighted, and there were pipes and fiddles, and as much dancing and deray within as used to be at Sir Robert’s house at Pace and Redgauntlet
- The iron portcullis was slowly lowered down, but she saw no one in sight.
- In addition, a medieval style archway will be put up across Churchgate from January 11 until January 25 and it will be built complete with turrets, a portcullis and arrow slits.
- Between the slow ticking of the cogs I listened jealously for foreign sounds, and heard at length a gentle dripping across the breadth of the boathouse; that was the last of the "portcullis," as Raffles called it, rising out of the river; indeed, I could now see the difference in the stretch of stream underneath, for the open end of the boathouse was much less dark than mine; and when the faint band of reflected starlight had broadened as I thought enough, I ceased winding and groped my way down the steps into the boat. Mr. Justice Raffles
