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.

   “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.

   “[…] 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 their Off-ſpring) fall with the coaſt of Peru, […]”

5. (uncountable, usually)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.

   “Castling is prevented temporarily: […] If there is any piece between the king and the rook with which castling is to be effected.”

6. (uncountable, usually)The act of constructing a defense structure in Japanese chess in which the king (玉) is positioned in a certain way so that it is protected by pawns (歩) and silver general(s) (銀) and/or gold general(s) (金) often with an additional knight (桂) and lance (香車).

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of castle

name

1. A surname.