noun. A small tower or tower-shaped projection on a building.

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noun. A low, heavily armored structure, usually rotating horizontally, containing mounted guns and their gunners or crew, as on a warship or tank.

noun. A domelike gunner's enclosure projecting from the fuselage of a combat aircraft.

noun. A tall wooden structure mounted on wheels and used in ancient warfare by besiegers to scale the walls of an enemy fortress.

noun. An attachment for a lathe consisting of a rotating cylindrical block holding various cutting tools.

noun. A rotating device holding various lenses, as for a microscope, allowing easy switching from one lens to another.

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noun. An attachment to a lathe, drill, boring-machine, or slotting-machine designed to hold and present to the work a series of boring-, drilling-, or cutting-tools, the object being to save the time lost in changing from one tool to another by hand.

noun. A little tower rising from or otherwise connected with a larger building; a small tower, often crowning or finishing the angle of a wall, etc.

noun. In medieval warfare, a movable building of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories, and sometimes 180 feet high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaches to a fortified place for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, etc.

noun. Milit., a tower, often revolving, for offensive purposes, on land or water. See cut under monitor.

noun. In her.: A small slender tower, usually forming part of a bearing, being set upon a larger tower. Sec turreted, 3.

noun. A bearing representing a kind of scepter having both ends alike and resembling the ends of the cross avellane. See tirret.

noun. In a railroad-car of American model, the raised part of the middle of the roof, utilized for affording light and ventilation.

noun. In a lathe, a cylindrical or polygonal block on the bed, with holes around it for dies.

noun. Same as terret.

noun. A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure.

noun. 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.

noun. A revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates, within which cannon are mounted. Turrets are used on vessels of war and on land.

noun. The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car. Its sides are pierced for light and ventilation.

noun. a large clock adapted for an elevated position, as in the tower of a church.

noun. a vertical cylindrical revolving tool holder for bringing different tools into action successively in a machine, as in a lathe.

noun. a turning lathe having a turret head.

noun. an ironclad war vessel, with low sides, on which heavy guns are mounted within one or more iron turrets, which may be rotated, so that the guns may be made to bear in any required direction.

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

noun. 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

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

noun. the elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car. Its sides are pierced for light and ventilation

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

noun. a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation

noun. a small tower extending above a building