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Meanings of inner ward in English
Russian
ядро замка Portuguese
bailey interior 
Strongly fortified enclosure at the heart of a medieval castle.
Synonyms
Examples for "inner bailey"
Examples for "inner bailey"
1
The rest of the household greeted them just inside the inner bailey gates.
2
They passed under the small inner bailey gate.
3
Several large buildings crowded the inner bailey, which was floored with rectangular blocks of pale gray stone.
4
The Red Keep was dark and still as Cayn and Tomard escorted him across the inner bailey.
5
Crossing the inner bailey of Mock's Hold, Temper shook out his cloak and pulled it over his shoulders.
1
He waddled out into the lower bailey; his stunted legs complained of the steps.
2
They met in the lower bailey of Riverrun.
3
When 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.
1
Two mules were waiting in the upper bailey, saddled and ready.
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Four men had been standing in the doorway of the upper ward.
2
No one was very ill in this upper ward, which was kept for convalescents.
3
In the upper ward six wounded soldiers had been killed, and in the lower two old women.
4
It had struck almost vertically on the tiled roof, and, exploding in the attic, had blown in the ceiling into the upper ward.
5
In this reign, in all probability, the Norman Tower, which now forms a gateway between the middle and the upper ward, was erected.
Usage of inner ward in English
1
There are two divisions: the outer ward, and the inner ward.
2
He set off in search of the inner ward.
3
There are mottes and baileys, outer wards and an inner ward, a barbican, towers and keeps.
4
In 1097, under William Rufus, the works were still going on and the inner ward was enclosed.
5
This leads to the outer ward which is about four times as large as the inner ward.
6
He found the sept off the castle's inner ward; a windowless, seven-sided, half-timbered building with carved wood doors and a tiled roof.
7
And when you would be let out, make a signal by drawing the cord which you will find within the inner ward.'
8
On passing through the gateway, the outer court of the inner ward was entered, with the western facade of the monastic church in front.
9
Queen Mary's Tower, so called from having been the prison of Mary Queen of Scots, was in the south-east angle of the inner ward.
10
And turning to me, he said, 'They will send for you on Monday,' and then I passed into the inner ward, and a cell.
11
On the far side, the wall of the palace's inner ward rose in a glimmery green cliff, broken by narrow loophole windows of jet-black glass.
12
The Lieutenant's Lodging was packed into the corner of the Inner Ward.
13
Under this Tower we enter the Inner Ward.
14
There were five gates to the Inner Ward.
15
"I saw him last in Warwick Inner Ward." And in a few words he explained.
16
The chapel bell tolled midnight from the Inner Ward as Daniel was rounding the northwest corner, near Legge's Mount, for the third time.