1) Architectural element 2) Armored structure 3) Battlement 4) Building tower 5) Castle architecture 6) Castle feature 7) Castle part 8) Castle structure 9) Castle tower 10) French word used in English 11) Gun enclosure 12) Gun housing 13) Gun location 14) Gun mount 15) Monitor feature 16) Part of a tank
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1) Fortress 2) Mirador
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- a small tower extending above a building
- a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation
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In architecture, a turret (from Italian: torretta, little tower; Latin: turris, tower) is a small tower that projects vertically from the wall of a building such as a medieval castle. Turrets were used to provide a projecting defensive position allowing covering fire to the adjacent wall in the days of military fortification. As their military use...
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• (n.) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure. • (n.) The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car. Its sides are pierced for light and ventilation. • (n.) A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundre...
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A small tower that pierces a roofline. A turret is usually cylindrical, and is topped by a conical roof.
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(from the article `machine tool`) Horizontal turret lathes have two features that distinguish them from engine lathes. The first is a multiple-sided main turret, which takes the place ...
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a small tower
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Small tower, round or polygonal; usually a lookout.
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Small tower, round or polygonal; usually a lookout.
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A small tower built into part of a fortification's curtain wall. These may be accessed from the ground, through the curtain wall itself if wide enough to admit passage, the ground level or the parapet along the top. These may act as accommodation for small garrisons separated from their main bases elsewhere, or can be used as a place for firing we...
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A small tower. In parish churches they often contain staircases.
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small tower
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A small tower, usually supported by corbels.
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A small tower, usually supported by corbels.
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A small tower at the corner of a building.
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A small tower. In parish churches they often contain staircases.
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In architecture a turret (touret or turette) is a small tower. The name is also sometimes given to a large pinnacle. Turrets are employed in Gothic architecture for various purposes, and are applied in various ways. They also differ very greatly in their forms, proportions, and decorations. In many cases turrets are used solely for ornament. They a...
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Turret is slang for the head.
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n] - a small tower extending above a building
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small tower
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The transparent enclosed position of the gunner of a military aeroplane. Most turrets are power-operated, hydraulically, electrically, and both.
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noun a small tower extending above a building
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A rotating lens mount allowing for the mounting of three or sometimes four lenses on a camera, allowing for the quick change from one lens to another. Only one is in use at any given time, and this is known as the taking lens
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a small tower, usually one forming part of a larger structure. · a small tower at an angle of a building, as of a castle or fortress, frequently beginning some distance above the ground. · Also calleda pivoted attachment on a lathe or the like for holding a number of tools, each of which can be presented to the work in rapid succession...
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