"countercastle" meaning in English

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      "form": "countercastles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "word": "counter-castle"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1994, Hans Eberhard Mayer, Kings and lords in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Clifford J. Rogers, William Caferro, Shelley Reid, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Peter Simpson, England in the Middle Ages: The Normans 1066-1154",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of counter-castle"
      ],
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  "word": "countercastle"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "countercastles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "counter-castle"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1994, Hans Eberhard Mayer, Kings and lords in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Clifford J. Rogers, William Caferro, Shelley Reid, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Peter Simpson, England in the Middle Ages: The Normans 1066-1154",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of counter-castle"
      ],
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  "word": "countercastle"
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