portcullis /pōrt- or pört-kulˈis/

1. A grating that can be let down to close a gateway of a castle, fortress, etc
2. A lattice (heraldry)
3. One of the pursuivants of the English College of Heralds
4. An Elizabethan silver halfpenny with a portcullis on the reverse

To obstruct, as with a portcullis

• bailing
• bailiwick
• bailiwicks
• bailli
• bailliage
• bailliages
• baillie
• baillies
• baillieship
• baillieships
• baillis
• bailment
• bailments
• bailor
• bailors
• bail out
• bail-out
• bailout
• bails
• bailsman
• bailsmen
• bail up
• Baily's beads
• ba'ing
• bainin