'Drawbridge' definitions:
Definition of 'drawbridge'
(from WordNet)
noun
A bridge that can be raised to block passage or to allow boats or ships to pass beneath it [syn: drawbridge, lift bridge]
Definition of 'Drawbridge'
From: GCIDE
- Drawbridge \Draw"bridge`\, n. A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The movable portion, or draw, is called, specifically, a bascule, balance, or lifting bridge, a turning, swivel, or swing bridge, or a rolling bridge, according as it turns on a hinge vertically, or on a pivot horizontally, or is pushed on rollers. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'drawbridge'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abatis,
- advanced work,
- balistraria,
- bank,
- banquette,
- barbed-wire entanglement,
- barbican,
- barricade,
- barrier,
- bartizan,
- bascule bridge,
- bastion,
- bateau bridge,
- battlement,
- Bifrost,
- breastwork,
- bridge,
- bulwark,
- cantilever bridge,
- casemate,
- catwalk,
- cheval-de-frise,
- circumvallation,
- contravallation,
- counterscarp,
- curtain,
- demibastion,
- dike,
- earthwork,
- enclosure,
- entanglement,
- escarp,
- escarpment,
- fence,
- fieldwork,
- floating bridge,
- flyover,
- footbridge,
- fortalice,
- fortification,
- gangboard,
- gangplank,
- gangway,
- glacis,
- lift bridge,
- loophole,
- lunette,
- machicolation,
- mantelet,
- merlon,
- mound,
- outwork,
- overbridge,
- overcrossing,
- overpass,
- palisade,
- parados,
- parapet,
- pontoon bridge,
- portcullis,
- postern gate,
- rampart,
- ravelin,
- redan,
- redoubt,
- rope bridge,
- sally port,
- scarp,
- sconce,
- span,
- stepping-stone,
- stepstone,
- stockade,
- suspension bridge,
- swing bridge,
- tenaille,
- toll bridge,
- vallation,
- vallum,
- viaduct,
- work