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summer-tower

summer-tower noun: movable tower used in sieges.

Noun

summer-tower (plural summer-towers)

  1. movable tower used in sieges
    • Scales, ladderes, & somertoures [L. ad capiendos muros scalae vel machinae] and alle suche gynnes..ben Iordeyned to clymbe vp walles & toures.1408, tr. Vegetius, De Re Militari (Douce) f. 110
    Synonyms:
    summercastle

Synonyms of summer-tower

Forms of summer-tower

pluralsummer-towers

Questions about summer-tower

What does summer-tower mean?
Summer-tower means movable tower used in sieges.
What part of speech is summer-tower?
Summer-tower is a noun.
What is the plural of summer-tower?
The plural of summer-tower is summer-towers.

Words near summer-tower in the dictionary

  1. summer-pieces
  2. summer-stirring
  3. summer-stone
  4. summer-stones
  5. summer-time
  6. summer-tower
  7. summer-towers
  8. summer-work
  9. summer-yellow
  10. Summerall
  11. Summeralls

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