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語源

From 中期英語 portcolyse, from Old French porte colëice, from porte (“door”) + feminine of colëiz (“sliding”), ultimately from Latin colāre.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /pɔːtˈkʌl.ɪs/
• (米国発音) IPA: /pɔɹtˈkʌl.ɪs/

名詞

portcullis (plural portcullises or portcullisses or (rare) portculli or (rare) portscullis)

1. A gate in the form of a grating which is lowered into place at the gateway of a castle, a fort, etc.

   Synonym: (obsolete, rare) cataract

2. (historical) An old English coin from the reign of Elizabeth I, minted for the use of the East India Company, and bearing the picture of a portcullis on the reverse.

動詞

portcullis (third-person singular simple present portcullises or portcullisses, present participle portcullising or portcullissing, simple past and past participle portcullised or portcullissed)

1. (usually passive) To obstruct with, or as with, a portcullis; to shut; to bar.
   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedie of King Richard the Second. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Simmes for Androw Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     […] Within my mouth you haue engaold my tongue, / Doubly portculliſt with my teeth and lippes […]

参照

• “portcullis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Further reading

• portcullis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia