A heavy frame of wooden or iron bars, sliding in vertical grooves within the masonry over the gateway of a fortified town, to be lowered for barring the passage. When hastily made, it was termed a sarrazine.
·vt To obstruct with, or as with, a portcullis; to <<Shut>>; to <<Bar>>. II. Portcullis ·noun An En...
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