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summer-towers

summer-towers is the plural of summer-tower.

Meaning of summer-tower

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

Questions about summer-towers

What is summer-towers the plural of?
Summer-towers is the plural of summer-tower.

Words near summer-towers in the dictionary

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

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