Definition of turret

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Turret (n.) A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries..

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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.
Turriculated :: Turriculated (a.) Furnished with, or formed like, a small turret or turrets; somewhat turreted..
Castled :: Castled (a.) Fortified; turreted; as, castled walls..
Turret :: Turret (n.) A revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates, within which cannon are mounted. Turrets are used on vessels of war and on land..
Tor :: Tor (n.) A tower; a turret.
Toret :: Toret (n.) A Turret.
Turreted :: Turreted (a.) Formed like a tower; as, a turreted lamp..
Turreted :: Turreted (a.) Furnished with a turret or turrets; specifically (Zool.), having the whorls somewhat flattened on the upper side and often ornamented by spines or tubercles; -- said of certain spiral shells..
Lower :: Lower (a.) To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret..
Cupola :: Cupola (n.) A revolving shot-proof turret for heavy ordnance.
Guerite :: Guerite (n.) A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions..
Turritella :: Turritella (n.) Any spiral marine gastropod belonging to Turritella and allied genera. These mollusks have an elongated, turreted shell, composed of many whorls. They have a rounded aperture, and a horny multispiral operculum..
Turret :: Turret (n.) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure..
Scalaria :: Scalaria (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus Scalaria, or family Scalaridae, having elongated spiral turreted shells, with rounded whorls, usually crossed by ribs or varices. The color is generally white or pale. Called also ladder shell, and wentletrap. See Ptenoglossa, and Wentletrap..
Principal :: Principal (n.) One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.
Turrical :: Turrical (a.) Of or pertaining to a turret, or tower; resembling a tower..
Garret :: Garret (n.) A turret; a watchtower.
Castellated :: Castellated (a.) Furnished with turrets and battlements, like a castle; built in the style of a castle..
Monitor :: Monitor (n.) An ironclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns..
Pommel :: Pommel (n.) A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion.
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