Strongly fortified enclosure at the heart of a medieval castle.
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Examples for "inner bailey"
Examples for "inner bailey"
1The rest of the household greeted them just inside the inner bailey gates.
2They passed under the small inner bailey gate.
3Several large buildings crowded the inner bailey, which was floored with rectangular blocks of pale gray stone.
4The Red Keep was dark and still as Cayn and Tomard escorted him across the inner bailey.
5Crossing the inner bailey of Mock's Hold, Temper shook out his cloak and pulled it over his shoulders.
1There are two divisions: the outer ward, and the inner ward.
2He set off in search of the inner ward.
3There are mottes and baileys, outer wards and an inner ward, a barbican, towers and keeps.
4In 1097, under William Rufus, the works were still going on and the inner ward was enclosed.
5This leads to the outer ward which is about four times as large as the inner ward.
1He waddled out into the lower bailey; his stunted legs complained of the steps.
2They met in the lower bailey of Riverrun.
3When she returned to the lower bailey, Ser Brynden Tully stood on the water stairs with wet boots, talking with the captain of Riverrun's guards.
4"They trained you well, little bird." He conducted her to the lower bailey, where a crowd had gathered around the archery butts.
1Four men had been standing in the doorway of the upper ward.
2No one was very ill in this upper ward, which was kept for convalescents.
3In the upper ward six wounded soldiers had been killed, and in the lower two old women.
4It had struck almost vertically on the tiled roof, and, exploding in the attic, had blown in the ceiling into the upper ward.
5In this reign, in all probability, the Norman Tower, which now forms a gateway between the middle and the upper ward, was erected.
1Two mules were waiting in the upper bailey, saddled and ready.
Translations for upper bailey