Word of the Day:
turret
What It Means
A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
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.
A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
Their Victorian house had three turrets and a large amount of gingerbread trim.
Turret in Context
“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.”
Did You Know?
From Middle English touret, from Old French torete (French tourette), diminutive of tour (“tower”), from Latin turris. Doublet of tor, tourelle, and tower. See tower.
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