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

Overtower :: Overtower (v. t.) To tower over or above.

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

Steeplechasing :: Steeple (n.) A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire..

Towered :: Towered (a.) Adorned or defended by towers.

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

Looplight :: Looplight (n.) A small narrow opening or window in a tower or fortified wall; a loophole.

Pylon :: Pylon (n.) An Egyptian gateway to a large building (with or without flanking towers).

Minaret :: Minaret (n.) A slender, lofty tower attached to a mosque and surrounded by one or more projecting balconies, from which the summon to prayer is cried by the muezzin..

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..

Bestower :: Bestower (n.) One that bestows.

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

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

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

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..

Peel :: Peel (n.) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep..

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 movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.

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