Associations to the word «Drawbridge»

Wiktionary

DRAWBRIDGE, noun. A hinged bridge which can be raised (to prevent its being crossed, as across a moat, or to allow watercraft to travel beneath it).

Dictionary definition

DRAWBRIDGE, noun. A bridge that can be raised to block passage or to allow boats or ships to pass beneath it.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope