turret.
A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
Meaning & usage
A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
Their Victorian house had three turrets and a large amount of gingerbread trim.
A siege tower; 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.
A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.
The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.
A turret head.
The central conical ornament atop a spinning roulette wheel.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English touret, from Old French torete (French tourette), diminutive of tour (“tower”), from Latin turris. Doublet of tor, tourelle, and tower. See tower.
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