CASTLING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Interchanging the positions of the king and a rook

Synonyms:

castle; castling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("castling" is a kind of...):

chess move (the act of moving a chess piece)

Derivation:

castle (move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king)

-ing form of the verb castle