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turret::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | gun enclosure, gun turret |
| Type of | weapons platform, platform |
turret::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | tower |
Examples of turret
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She was near the tailgate, facing the turret when the mortar landed with a boom.
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The game opens with you manning a turret during a short flight over New Detroit.
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Yon said he remained in the turret, communicating with the crew by hand signals.
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When you see a friendly or enemy turret, you can detach it and take it with you.
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He said Meyer stayed in the turret, firing a Mark 19 automatic grenade launcher.
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A winding stairway led up to a passage running through the middle of the turret.
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It includes a tower with a pyramidal roof and a turret incorporating a dovecote.
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It consists of a two-storey office block in brick and half-timber with a turret.
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This section of wall has a small observation turret and a square stone platform.
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- A small tower extending above a building
- Gun enclosure: a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation
- In architecture, a turret (from Italian: torretta, little tower; Latin: turris, tower) is a small tower that projects vertically from the wall of a building such as a medieval castle. ...
- A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle; 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 ...
- (Turrets) Structures designed for the mounting and handling of the guns and accessories (usually main battery guns) of a war vessel. Turrets are constructed so as to revolve about a vertical axis usually by means of electrical or hydraulic machinery.
- There is always a controversy about whether a particular rotating enclosed gun emplacement should be called a "Turret" or a "Mount. ...
- A small tower, usually supported by corbels.
- A gunners' fixed or moveable enclosure in an airplane.
- A little tower, set at an angle to the main wall; often at a corner and projecting above a building
