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UK
/dɹˈɔːbɹɪdʒ/
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[ US /ˈdɹɔˌbɹɪdʒ/ ]
[ US /ˈdɹɔˌbɹɪdʒ/ ]
NOUN
- a bridge that can be raised to block passage or to allow boats or ships to pass beneath it
How To Use drawbridge In A Sentence
- Their models are forts and castles, moats and drawbridges.
- Reluctantly I lower my defences, crank down the drawbridge, and allow her words to storm through. LOVE YOU MADLY
- The existing bascule bridge has indeed been recognized as a bottleneck for decades, but the “benefits” of a second drawbridge in this location remain unknown, unanalyzed in isolation, and the alternatives are yet to be explored. Neighborhood Activists Still Oppose State’s 520 Option « PubliCola
- At Walnut Grove, bustling with life, the few Americane consisted of the storekeeper, the saloonkeeper, the butcher, the keeper of the drawbridge, and the ferryman. CHAPTER XII
- But so little, it would seem, had this lonely fastness been approached from outside that when the impatient Granby halloed across to the dim figures behind the portcullis, they seemed, to have considerable difficulty even in lowering the great rusty drawbridge. The Complete Father Brown
- Built in 2000, the Slauerhoffbrug is a kind of cantilevered drawbridge, but skewed to one side. Google Sightseeing
- The warm, jovial man that had met us at the drawbridge now had solidified, becoming a cold-hearted sentinel that seemed to march metallically across the carpeted floor.
- He had also installed a sturdy, massive drawbridge into the centre of the eastern wall as the only means of entering, and to minimize hostile penetration.
- After opening the drawbridge and locking it behind him, the First Investigator hurried through the tunnel and pressed the lever on the wall. THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
- For in that garth was neither knight nor squire nor sergeant; no spear-head glittered from the wall, no gleam of helm showed from the war-swales; no porter was at the gate; the drawbridge over the deep ghyll was down, the portcullis was up, and the great door cast wide open. The Water of the Wondrous Isles