Turret

Quick meaning: Turret is a noun meaning (architecture) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (electronics) A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
2. (military) An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.
3. (rail transport) The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.
4. (machining, manufacturing) A turret head.
5. (gambling) The central conical ornament atop a spinning roulette wheel.
6. (historical, military) 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.

Example Sentences

Their Victorian house had three turrets and a large amount of gingerbread trim.

Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.

There breathes no being but has some pretence / To that fine instinct called poetic sense; […] / The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for turret

Depending on context, synonyms include cupola.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tower, gunner, bartizan, cupola, watchtower, barbette.

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