"Sarrasine" is a word in ENGLISH

A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes. It is hung above …

A portcullis.

A grating of iron or of timbers pointed with iron, hung over the gateway of a fortress, to be let …

An English coin of the reign of Elizabeth, struck for the use of the East India Company; -- so called …

To obstruct with, or as with, a portcullis; to shut; to bar.

of Portcullis

of Portcullis