Crossword-Solution: PORTCULLIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Portcullis | n. | A grating of iron or of timbers pointed with iron, hung over the gateway of a fortress, to be let down to prevent the entrance of an enemy. |
| Portcullis | n. | An English coin of the reign of Elizabeth, struck for the use of the East India Company; -- so called from its bearing the figure of a portcullis on the reverse. |
| Portcullis | v. t. | To obstruct with, or as with, a portcullis; to shut; to bar. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “PORTCULLIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Castle's iron gate | 1 answer |
| Defensive grating in medieval castles | 1 answer |
| Gateway grating in old castles | 1 answer |
| Gateway grille | 1 answer |
| CASTLE gate | 2 answers |
| CASTLES IN THE AIR | 13 answers |
| castles in Spain | 20 answers |
| Gateway | 23 answers |
| CASTLE part | 31 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PORTCULLIS (5)
Fray’s forehead was wrinkled both perpendicularly and crosswise, after the pattern of a portcullis, expressive of a double despair.
But they entered it along with men bringing wares into the town, and none heeded them much, till they came to the very gate, on the further side of a moat that was both deep and clean; but as now the bridge was down and the portcullis up, so that the market-people might pass in easily, for it was yet early in the day.
She, too, had walked up that road and flattened her nose against that portcullis; and she pointed out something that I had overlooked--to wit, that if you rowed off in a boat to the curly ship, and got hold of a rope, and clambered aboard of her, and swarmed up the mast, and got into the crow's-nest, you could just see over the headland, and take in at your ease the life and bustle of the port.
Behind, I found a sort of flexible portcullis of small bars of wood laid close together horizontally.
The man was standing close beside Barney’s horse, and the words were scarce out of his month when the American slipped from his saddle to the portcullis and struck the officer full in the face.
Quotes with PORTCULLIS (3)
... begged them as we read our literary texts, only to listen. To wrench open - it takes an effort of will - the portcullis to their teenage hearts for just a couple of hours once a week, to humbly admit another, and better - a Yeats or Shakespeare, a Crazy Jane or Hamlet - and to welcome them, to allow for those tiny spots of time some vibration in the jelly of being, that makes, once it has settled, a subtle new mould... Otherwise, I would observe tartly... you are merely g…
Almost astride the Equator, night fell like a portcullis. The sun dropped below the horizon and suddenly all was dark.
The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1998–2004).