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Water Tower :: Water tower () A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings..

Bastile Bastille :: Bastile Bastille (n.) A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place..

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..

Babel :: Babel (n.) The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place..

Conning Tower :: Conning tower (n.) The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel.

Broach :: Broach (n.) A spire rising from a tower.

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..

Tower :: Tower (n.) A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower..

Campanile :: Campanile (n.) A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church..

Eminent :: Eminent (a.) High; lofty; towering; prominent.

Dispart :: Dispart (v. t.) To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers..

Lantern :: Lantern (n.) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns..

Lighthouse :: Lighthouse (n.) A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos..

Towering :: Towering (a.) Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height..

Tor :: Tor (n.) A tower; a turret.

Overbulk :: Overbulk (v. t.) To oppress by bulk; to overtower.

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..

Towery :: Towery (a.) Having towers; adorned or defended by towers.

Donjon :: Donjon (n.) The chief tower, also called the keep; a massive tower in ancient castles, forming the strongest part of the fortifications. See Illust. of Castle..

Towered :: towered (imp. & p. p.) of Towe.

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