a bridge of which the whole or a section may be drawn up, let down, or drawn aside, to prevent access or to leave a passage open for boats, barges, etc.
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By including the word “Zion,” we had pulled up the drawbridge.
“It was sort of like one of those scenes where the drawbridge comes up and the dungeon door closes,” Relin recalled.
It was encircled by a ditch, but the drawbridge was down, and the rust on its chains argued that long had it been so.
The besiegers forced the advance barricade, burned the drawbridge, and fired the gate.
Crossing the drawbridge at a fast gallop, he saw a number of guards looking at him wonderingly.
In silence, with the Seneschal at her elbow, she watched the procession advance until it was at the foot of the drawbridge.
No trains were running, but the drawbridge that separated the marsh from San Pablo Bay opened as usual.