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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..

Belfry :: Belfry (n.) A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile..

Phare :: Phare (n.) A beacon tower; a lighthouse.

Spire :: Spire (n.) A tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form. Specifically (Arch.), the roof of a tower when of a pyramidal form and high in proportion to its width; also, the pyramidal or aspiring termination of a tower which can not be said to have a roof, such as that of Strasburg cathedral; the tapering part of a steeple, or the steeple itself..

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

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.

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

Disposer :: Disposer (n.) One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower..

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

Rise :: Rise (v.) To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea..

Tour :: Tour (n.) 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..

Castle :: Castle (n.) A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back..

Turreted :: Turreted (a.) Formed like a tower; as, a turreted lamp..

Rondel :: Rondel (n.) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.

Turret :: Turret (n.) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure..

Turrical :: Turrical (a.) Of or pertaining to a turret, or tower; resembling a tower..

Squinsy :: Squinch (n.) A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon..

Garret :: Garret (n.) A turret; a watchtower.

Belfry :: Belfry (n.) A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.

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