drawbridge

Converse of object

• lower: The soldiers lowered a drawbridge at the top of the tower onto the castle wall.
• cross: Then the General agreed to cross the drawbridge and enter the fort.
• raise: An ivory tower is better defended from behind a moat with a raised drawbridge.
• work: The Siege tower has a working drawbridge, the battering ram swings on chords.
• have: The Roman bridge had a drawbridge in the middle, quite useful to let through larger ships.
• replace: The 2 arched brick bridges spanning the ditch were built around 1890 to replace the earlier drawbridges.

Converse of subject

• approach: It consisted of a massive gatehouse and a walled bailey, approached by a wooden drawbridge.
• cross: The moat was perhaps twelve feet wide, crossed by a single drawbridge.
• enter: It was formerly entered by a drawbridge over a deep fosse.
• defend: The outside of the Northgate was defended by a drawbridge.
• connect: There was another platform, connected by a drawbridge, but this has long since been removed.

Preposition: over

• moat: There was no doubt a drawbridge over the moat at the foot of the hill and outside the gates.

Adjective modifier

• wooden: There was a compressed peel of thunder as eight powerful hooves pounded across the wooden drawbridge.
• old: Running over the old drawbridge into the ruins of the castle.
• original: The third is of the brick bridge over the moat which replaced the original drawbridge.
• small: Here there was a small foot drawbridge, opening into a green ( now Old Market street ).
• former: This is from inside looking across the site of the former drawbridge.

Modifies a noun

• chain: The drawbridge chains run through tubing from a plastic pen barrel to avoid cutting into the polystyrene.
• mechanism: When visiting castles you can sometimes find grooves in the front of the Keep where the drawbridge mechanism would have been.

Preposition: across

• moat: The southern rectangular tower of the Postern Gate at one time carried the drawbridge across the moat.