countercastle
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Noun[edit]
countercastle (plural countercastles)
- Alternative form of counter-castle
- 1994, Hans Eberhard Mayer, Kings and lords in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem:
- When the king in 1136 began his policy of surrounding Ascalon by a ring of countercastles and built the castle at Beth Gibelin and entrusted it to the Knights of St. John, the patriarch was present.
- 2010, Clifford J. Rogers, William Caferro, Shelley Reid, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology:
- These simple countercastle structures were all the more remarkable in that they proliferated at the same time that timber castles were giving way to stone ones.
- 2019, Peter Simpson, England in the Middle Ages: The Normans 1066-1154:
- A countercastle could have been a base for what we might call a semisiege; not a full-scale containment to a castle or city but a neutralizing effort in which a moderate garrison could make foraging for food and resupplying difficult but not impossible.