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Webster 1913 Edition
Turret
1.
(Arch.)
A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure.
2.
(Anc. Mil.)
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.
3.
(Mil.)
A revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates, within which cannon are mounted. Turrets are used on vessels of war and on land.
4.
(Railroads)
The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car. Its sides are pierced for light and ventilation.
Turret clock
, a large clock adapted for an elevated position, as in the tower of a church.
– Turret head
(Mach.)
, a vertical cylindrical revolving tool holder for bringing different tools into action successively in a machine, as in a lathe.
– Turret lathe
, a turning lathe having a turret head.
– Turret ship
, 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Turret
TUR'RET
,Noun.
And lift her turrets nearer to the sky.
1.
In the art of war, movable turrets, used formerly by the Romans, were buildings of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories, and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, moved on wheels. They were employed in approaches to a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting-bridges and other necessaries.Definition 2024
turret
turret
English
A siege tower
The turret of a South African Olifant Mk 1A main battle tank
Electronic components soldered on a turret board
Noun
turret (plural turrets)
- (architecture) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
- 1836, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., “Poetry: A Metrical Essay”, republished in The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, 1862, OCLC 5091562, pages 7–8:
- 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.
- 1836, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., “Poetry: A Metrical Essay”, republished in The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, 1862, OCLC 5091562, pages 7–8:
- (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.
- (electronics) A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
- (military) An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.
- (rail transport) The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.
Synonyms
- (military): cupola
Derived terms
Terms derived from turret
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Translations
a little tower
a movable building
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a solder post
a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates
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the elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car