/bas"tl/
(on the Anglo-Scottish border) a partly fortified house, usually with a vaulted ground floor.
Also, bastille house, bastle house .
[ 1535-45; see BASTILLE ]
/bas"tl/
(on the Anglo-Scottish border) a partly fortified house, usually with a vaulted ground floor.
Also, bastille house, bastle house .
[ 1535-45; see BASTILLE ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012