Definition of tower

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Tower (n.) A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion..

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Bastile Bastille :: Bastile Bastille (n.) A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place..
Turret :: Turret (n.) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure..
Overbulk :: Overbulk (v. t.) To oppress by bulk; to overtower.
Peel :: Peel (n.) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep..
Tower :: Tower (v. i.) To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar..
Belfry :: Belfry (n.) A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola or turret for the same purpose.
Tower :: Tower (n.) A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress..
Pylon :: Pylon (n.) A low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and flanking an ancient Egyptian gateway..
Tower :: Tower (n.) High flight; elevation.
Towering :: Towering (a.) Hence, extreme; violent; surpassing..
Overtower :: Overtower (v. t.) To tower over or above.
Castle :: Castle (n.) A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back..
Martello Tower :: Martello tower () A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction..
Barbacan :: Barbacan (n.) A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own..
Dispart :: Dispart (v. t.) To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers..
Aspire :: Aspire (v. t.) To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.
Tour :: Tour (n.) A tower.
Pane :: Pane (n.) A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building; as, an octagonal tower is said to have eight panes..
Turrical :: Turrical (a.) Of or pertaining to a turret, or tower; resembling a tower..
Conning Tower :: Conning tower (n.) The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel.
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