portcullis in English

noun

1

a strong, heavy grating sliding up and down in vertical grooves, lowered to block a gateway to a fortress or town.

Unbroken, that is, except by the gate itself, with the heavy iron bars of the portcullis still lowered at this early hour.

Use "portcullis" in a sentence

1. Portcullis - Effectual protection in emergency.

2. Another one rose, like a portcullis.

3. The parliamentary portcullis is featured above his head.

4. Most gateways had a metal grill called a portcullis.

5. English words for Cataracta include waterfall, cataract, portcullis, floodgate, riffle and fall

6. What distance should a gendarme keep from a portcullis?

7. Inside there was a portcullis of some dark metal.

8. At each end of the tanks are portcullis gates, which are opened and closed by hydraulic rams.

9. A connection was made to the stand pipe each time the portcullis end gates were raised.

10. Another Malta convoy under the code-name Operation Portcullis, MW 14, commenced just fifteen days after its predecessor.

11. There were moments when it felt like a portcullis downward-slammed between herself and the human community.

12. This is meant to convey a sense of security and privacy: the drawbridge is pulled up and the portcullis is dropped.

13. Begging him to leave this terrible place, she breaks away just in time before the rapidly closing portcullis closes in on her.

14. It was designed to resemble an English Gothic castle gatehouse, including rusticated stone walls, a battlement with crenels and merlons, arched windows, a massive arched door for a portcullis, and Bartizans with false arrow slits.

15. Aliptes m anointer in a wrestling school or baths; cataphractes m breastplate of iron scales; cataractes m waterfall; srapid; portcullis ; cerastes m the horned snake ; chiliarches m commander of 1000 soldiers; prime minister among the Persians ; choraules m flute-player, accompanying the chorus ; cometes m comet; dioecetes m revenue official