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