Noun
A supplementary glass containing some form of hard spirit, traditionally a whisky, which sits separately alongside one’s pint of ale or stout.
A punter of a drinking establishment who has a pint and a separate spirit on the
go, simultaneously, is said to be drinking "castle kingside". The act of ordering this particular drinking setup — assuming the drinker is already on pints but wants an accompanying spirit — is known as “castling”, or “to castle”, from the verb castle.
The term is derived from the
chess move of the same name, whereby the
king is moved two squares towards a rook (castle) on the player's first
rank, then the rook is moved to the
square over which the
king crossed. The outcome leaves the king and rook side-by-side.
Josh: “Is that
Tim over there at the bar, drinking castle kingside?”
Tom: “Yeah mate, it’s not even 5 o’
clock.”
