Meanings of raise drawbridge in English

Run, man, it was he who cried in Flavy's voice, bidding them raise drawbridge and let fall portcullis.

They docked at an elegant white marble gatehouse, with raised drawbridge and arrow loops bristling with wary elven archers.

There were shouts of defiance and screams of abuse, whilst a constant rain of stones beat against the raised drawbridge.

The advancing troops rode up to the raised drawbridge, displaying as they came the picturesque costume and swarthy face of the Bohemian marauder.

Some attacked the raised drawbridge with great missile weapons, while their companions picked off with their arrows the archers who were on the battlements.