What is "martello"

Usage examples of "martello".

Martello had been put together out of two offices and a small machine shop in anticipation of face-to-whatever meetings between Carmen and alien trade representatives.

Basti pensare ai classici fumetti di Thor che si aprivano con il Dio del Tuono in posa plastica sul tetto di un palazzo: osserva New York immersa nella notte, i lunghi ca­pelli che si agitavano al vento, la posa da statua greca e il martello poggiato sulla coscia.

Protetto da un'armatura d'oro, il re dei nani era alla testa di un gruppo di sudditi e brandiva Volund, il martello dei suoi antenati.

So if one Martello tower can do that to two men-of-war, while at the same time it keeps off fourteen hundred soldiers, just think what Grimsholm, much higher, fifty times as strong, and with no soldiers to worry about, could do.

This is called a Martello tower, but I could not learn who built it.

A faint yellow light in the west showed the links, on which a few figures moving toward the clubhouse were still visible, the squat martello tower, the lights of Aldsey village, the pale ribbon of sands intersected at intervals by black wooden groynes, the dim and murmuring sea.

Out of the residential area now, we put our heads down and our rumps in the air and rocketed east along AlA, Smathers Beach on our right now, all the way until we passed the East Martello Tower museum and could see the road ahead begin to curve north.

So the seaman prattled away about the Town Hall and the Martello Tower, and the Esplanade, and Pitt Street and the High Street, until his companion suddenly shot out a long eager arm and caught him by the wrist.

The Martello tower, black in the distance, squatted against the sky like a warning.

I was told they were to protect the isle against inroads from the sea - divine or diabolical martellos, probably sacred to Taburik, God of Thunder.

I was told they were to protect the isle against inroads from the sea--divine or diabolical martellos, probably sacred to Taburik, God of Thunder.

Così, dopo aver prelevato anche due o tre remi rotti della barca, e, oltre agli arnesi contenuti nella cassetta, anche due seghe, un'accetta e un martello, con questo carico presi il mare.