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Castle tower
Answer for the clue "Castle tower ", 6 letters:
turret
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small tower extending above a building a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation [syn: gun enclosure , gun turret ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A turret was a small watch tower, incorporated into the curtain wall of Hadrian's Wall . The turrets were normally spaced at intervals of one third of a Roman mile (equivalent to ) between Milecastles , giving two Turrets between each Milecastle.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Turrethead \Tur"ret*head\ an attachment fitted to a lathe or other machinery which holds a variety of tools which can act on the object being worked, and which are interchangeable by a pivoting motion, thus allowing efficient performance of multiple operations; ...
Usage examples of turret.
Armed with his two-handed battle sword, the Ras climbed half out of the turret and brandished it about his head.
As the ages passed, first one, then another of the four great turrets were left to ruin, until at last but a single tower housed the sadly reduced descendants of the once mighty lords of the estate.
Below them lay the dull grey of the turret armour, the Breda twin 40 millimetre barrels elevated from the compact mounting in the centre.
The gunners in the armored car turrets and the infantrymen huddled behind vision blocks in the sides of their armored personnel carriers could see nothing--until Molt warriors tele ported into the valley.
The conical white radome then disappeared, replaced by a heavy-action turret borrowed from the Abrams tank and a turret targeting system borrowed from the Hummer-25.
Late on the eleventh day of his investigation, Scriber stationed himself on that turret and waited.
The SB2Cs hurtled almost straight down from 15,000 feet, the pilots leaning forward, concentrating on the growing targets, wishing there were 1,000-pounders in their bomb bays instead of the two 500s, ignoring the flashing, streaking, smoking flak, around the edges of their vision seeing the altimeters unwind and the square-winged fighters sweep across their targets, the rocket hits sparkle and smoke against the steel, the bombs of planes ahead spouting close aboard or flashing beautifully on decks and turrets.
M3 Stoneman tanks and heavy M3 Grants with a small gun in a rotating turret and a big one in a sponson at the right front of the hull.
Rohan, Terner fired away, leaning out of the turret hatch of his tank.
Under the walls the mailed figures swarmed, battering at the gates, rearing up scaling-ladders, pushing storming-towers, thronged with spearmen, against the turrets.
He fed the underdrives a warm-up jolt, held one hand on the thrust regulator as he checked the gun turrets, finally switched on the viewscreens.
Dobbs was almost as bad as Orr, who seemed happy as an undersized, grinning lark with his deranged and galvanic giggle and shivering warped buck teeth and who was sent along for a rest leave with Milo and Yossarian on the trip to Cairo for eggs when Milo bought cotton instead and took off at dawn for Istanbul with his plane packed to the gun turrets with exotic spiders and unripened red bananas.
The first armored vehicle the Provisional Government received was a Rolls-Royce Whippet with a rotating turret containing a Vickers machine gun.
The island of Anguilla was breathtakingly beautiful, and the hotel was a fairy-tale Moorish palace, with domes and turrets and fabulous gardens, but she was completely alone.
CHAPTER 3 Ralph Cometh to the Cheaping-Town He slept in an upper chamber in a turret of the House, which chamber was his own, and none might meddle with it.