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A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.

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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.

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A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).

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An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.

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The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.

Examples of turret in a Sentence

The machinery worked so badly that the revolution of the turret was stopped.

Five heavy accurate shots from the Federal's turret guns crushed the enemy in a few minutes.

The " Scharnhorst " was hit twice with little injury; the " Gneisenau " received three hits, one of which bent the flap of the after turret, an injury of little moment.

It is a neat edifice with a bell turret, surmounted by four ancient crosses.

Next to the turret base a large hatchway (7) provides access to the space behind the secondary armament.

Two specialist Groups exist to cater for those interested in electrical horology and turret clocks.

Go left from the gun turret to get there.

Tho the top turret gunner tried to put out the flames, the cabin was filled with smoke.

There is a central stationary dome or turret with a circular porthole.

Monmouth was also hit by the third salvo from Gneisenau, setting her forward turret on fire.

The rotating turret has been mounted on the frames, together with the arm on which the cutter head will be mounted.

Two 12 inch guns would be housed in a revolving turret.

With the dorsal turret removed she would have been capable of around 350 mph +. Two 650 hp Mercury VIS engines gave adequate power.

Note the bell, which may have come from the Sanctus bell turret visible in the adjacent photo.

To replace the old bell turret an new bell tower was erected.

Entrance to stair turret set in thickness of west wall.

X, a kind of turret mounted on a base 32 inches in diameter, Fig.

The crossing is very high, much higher than the nave, and outside on its gable sits a fine Sanctus bell turret.

It is two story, with 1 75mm turret on the top floor, and two 81mm mortar embrasures in the lower floor.

The fronds of towering palm trees jostle for position above the medieval ramparts where nesting storks colonize each vacant turret.

The entrance is by a porch at the west end, which is surmounted by a bell turret, with two bells.

A stair turret breaks the symmetry on the south face.

Stair turret at southeast angle is lit by two slits in the same stage.

Previously, the time to machine the shaft and the faces and OD of each impeller was 5½ minutes, using twin turret lathes.

Finally it is hoped to include a visit to a local church turret clock.

One of the more interesting things you can pick up is a gun turret you can place anywhere that will spray your opponents.

When you have a condenser with a rotating turret you can use this to alter the direction of the light.

Access to the gallery is from the exterior staircase turret.

Entrance to the tower was by a door in a corner stair turret.

The cordite for the turret guns was supplied in cylindrical cases, each case containing two quarter charges.

My first priority were the rocket launcher guys, and then the 2nd priority were the machine gun turret people.

Master Chief is driving while the alien mans the turret.

A marksman who has a sniper rifle, blaster pistol, thermal detonator, auto turret dispenser and recon druid.

I really enjoyed using the Turret guns because you can sit there and blast at them as the walk towards you.

The sprawling mansion even had a turret and an entire ballroom on the fourth floor.

The alarm clock comes complete with two Star Wars mini figures and a "buildable blaster turret".

In English churches these stairs generally run up in a small turret in the wall at the west end of the chancel; often this also leads out on to the roof.

Such often took the form of a turret.

After two hours' fighting, the "Monitor" was drawn off, so that more ammunition could be placed in her turret.

The layer has under his control the hand-wheel for setting the range on the sights, another hand-wheel for elevating the gun and the sights on to the Detachable target, and a third for traversing the turret.

Its chief tributaries on the right are the Ruchil, Machany, Ruthven, May and Farg, and on the left, the Lednock and Turret.

A turret containing a huge bell was added in the 18th century, and restored after being injured by lightning in 1881.

I believe the transmitting aerial was fitted under the rear turret with a receiving aerial on each rear fin.

Timby (1819-1909), who in 1843 had filed a caveat for revolving towers for offensive or defensive warfare whether placed on land or water, and to whom the company building the "Monitor" paid $5000 royalty for each turret.

The bell turret rises directly from the gable end; two-tiered with a saddleback roof; small apertures with sandstone dressings.

Note the bell, which may have come from the sanctus bell turret visible in the adjacent photo.

It has a dado and terrazzo paving similar to the water-closet turret, and is warmed by a radiator.

Forward of the turret was the iron pilot house, square in shape, and rising about 4 ft.

On the Lednock are the falls of the Devil's Cauldron and on the Turret and its feeders several graceful cascades.

The loss of the armoured turret ship "Aquidaban" by a magazine explosion in the bay of Jacarepagua, near Rio de Janeiro, in 1905, had left Brazil with but one fighting vessel (the " Reachuelo ") of any importance.

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