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Word: Portcullis
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
Middle English: from Old French porte coleice ‘sliding door’, from porte ‘door’ (from Latin porta) + coleice ‘sliding’ (feminine of couleis, from Latin colare ‘to filter’)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
pɔːtˈkʌlɪs
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a strong, heavy grating that can be lowered down grooves on each side of a gateway to block it.
Short Definition:grating that can be lowered over gateway
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