Definition of tower

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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..

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Pylon :: Pylon (n.) An Egyptian gateway to a large building (with or without flanking towers).
Looplight :: Looplight (n.) A small narrow opening or window in a tower or fortified wall; a loophole.
Tower :: Tower (n.) High flight; elevation.
Peel :: Peel (n.) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea..
Top :: Top (v. i.) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains..
Daw :: Daw (n.) A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw..
Overtower :: Overtower (v. t.) To tower over or above.
Eminent :: Eminent (a.) High; lofty; towering; prominent.
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..
Water Tower :: Water tower () A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings..
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..
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..
Curtain :: Curtain (n.) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc..
Disposer :: Disposer (n.) One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower..
Tower :: Tower (v. i.) To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar..
Bastile Bastille :: Bastile Bastille (n.) A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place..
Tower :: Tower (v. t.) To soar into.
Turret :: Turret (n.) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure..
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..
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