Hard knights and castles word search
Portcullis, trebuchet and a shield: twenty-eight medieval words for older students and history fans. Words run in every direction in the large grid, backwards and diagonally too.
- Archer
- Arrow slit
- Banquet
- Battlements
- Blacksmith
- Catapult
- Chainmail
- Chivalry
- Crossbow
- Gatehouse
- Gauntlet
- Great hall
- Herald
- Horseback
- Jester
- Jousting
- Knighthood
- Lady-in-waiting
- Longbow
- Medieval
- Middle Ages
- Minstrel
- Portcullis
- Shield
- Tapestry
- Trebuchet
- Turret
- Visor
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- Archer
- Arrow slit
- Banquet
- Battlements
- Blacksmith
- Catapult
- Chainmail
- Chivalry
- Crossbow
- Gatehouse
- Gauntlet
- Great hall
- Herald
- Horseback
- Jester
- Jousting
- Knighthood
- Lady-in-waiting
- Longbow
- Medieval
- Middle Ages
- Minstrel
- Portcullis
- Shield
- Tapestry
- Trebuchet
- Turret
- Visor
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About this word search
To throw down the Gauntlet once meant challenging someone to a fight, because a knight tossed his armored glove on the ground as a dare. The phrase is still in use, and a history class can hunt for other everyday expressions that come from the Middle Ages.
LADYINWAITING loses its hyphens, and MIDDLEAGES and ARROWSLIT lose their spaces. Words point every way on this eighteen-row board, reversed ones included. Visor and Herald are short enough to hide in plain sight.
Older students can split the list three ways: who lived and worked in a castle, which parts made up the building, and what was used in battle. Jester and Blacksmith go in the first group, Turret and Gatehouse in the second, Crossbow and Trebuchet in the third.
Ways to use this word search
In the classroom
Print it as a task for early finishers, or to open a lesson on this topic. With the QR code on the sheet, students check their own answers.
At home and on the go
Pack a few printed sheets for the car, the train or a family vacation. A pen is all you need, no screen required.
Play together
Print the sheet twice and race each other. Whoever finds all the words first wins. Or play it online and see who is fastest.
Try it in French too
The same theme also exists in French and German, each with its own word list in that language. Handy if you are learning a language: you already know the topic, now just the words.
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