- Hung down
- Hung down loosely
- Hung loosely
- of Dangle
- Drooped
- Hung down loosely
- Wilted
- of Sag
- Iron grating at a castle entrance
- A grating of iron or of timbers pointed with iron, hung
over the gateway of a fortress, to be let down to prevent the entrance
of an enemy.
- An English coin of the reign of Elizabeth, struck for
the use of the East India Company; -- so called from its bearing the
figure of a portcullis on the reverse.
- To obstruct with, or as with, a portcullis; to shut;
to bar.