portcullisedadj.
/pɔːtˈkʌlᵻst/, U.S. /pɔrtˈkələst/ 1. Furnished with or having a portcullis; closed or barred with or as with a portcullis.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > gate > [adjective] > having portcullis
portcullised1572
1572 N. Roscarrock in J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie sig. C.iij A hugie building olde, Portcolized & bard with bolts.
1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 23 v And all those townes..Within their strong Percullisd Ports shall lie.
1611 T. Heywood Golden Age iv. sig. Hv The rest keep watchfull eye On your percullist entrance.
1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells v. 325 [Nature] hath afforded Man but one Tongue and that portall'd with lips and percullis'd with teeth.
a1763 W. Shenstone Progress of Taste ii. in Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 271 The stately fort, the turrets tall, Portcullis'd gate, and battled wall.
1774 W. Gostling Walk Canterbury ii. 6 Westgate..makes a very handsome appearance, standing between two lofty and spacious round towers, founded in the river at the western corners, embattled, portcullised, and machecollated.
1844 Times 23 May 5/7 The dungeons, the portcullised gateways,..all spoke of a period and a place that required watchfulness and defence.
1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 413 A lofty, massive front with three fortified and portcullised gateways.
1883 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 15 238 A small feudal fortress with drawbridge, portcullised entrance, machicoulis defences, [etc.].
1933 Times 30 Nov. 17/6 The traveller in earlier days..passed, at a step under the portcullised gateway, the limit between the country and the town.
1975 Times 26 Mar. 4/4 Castle Drogo does not pretend to be a castle; it is one: castellated, buttressed, turreted, portcullised, and carved out of granite.
2000 Evening Standard (Nexis) 12 May 30 Barker has a couple of..terriers. They are first to the portcullised door at the flat where she lives.
2. Heraldry. Crossed with vertical and horizontal bars; latticed. Cf. portcullis n. 2. Now rare.
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the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [adjective] > like a lattice or grating
latticed1577
cancellate1661
trellised1664
cancellated1681
grated1786
treillaged1810
portcullised?1828
gridded1926
society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [adjective] > latticed
portcullised?1828
trellised1889
?1828 W. Berry Encycl. Heraldica I. Gloss. Portcullised, barred upright and across, after the form of a portcullis, termed also latticed.
1847 H. Gough Gloss. Terms Brit. Heraldry Lattised, Treille, or Portcullised, a pattern resembling fretty, but placed cross-ways. It may be interlaced or not.
1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Perculaced, in her. latticed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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