Meaning of countercastle | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

Examples

“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⟳.”

“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.”

“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.”

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