What is "turrets"

Usage examples of "turrets".

From each of the turrets, the heads of the four drivers appeared timidly, like gophers peering out of their holes.

Here the banks of the river were only just enough to cover the hulls of the two cars, but they left the turrets partially exposed.

Those who had survived the savage death of the tanks, hundreds of almost naked figures, swarmed over the stranded hulls, loolooing wildly and pounding on the steel turrets with their bare hands.

The Italian gunners still inside the hulls fired their machine guns despairingly, but there was no power on their traversing gear and the turrets were frozen.

Suspended between its two turrets was a cylindrical gray steel mass that appeared to be more than fifty feet long from end to end.

A stunned silence fell upon the party as they saw the row of four iron ladies, gleaming in their new coats of grey, with the heavily jacketed water-cooled barrels of the Vickers machine guns protruding from the ports and the rakish turrets emblazoned with the tricolour horizontal bars of the Ethiopian national colours green, yellow and red.

The four vehicles were now painted a glistening snowy white, and the turrets were emblazoned with a flaming scarlet cross.

The Vickers machine guns in the turrets of the two armoured cars had ball-type mountings.

The six speedy machines, with their low rakish lines and Aided turrets, intrigued him.

He was going to have to take his beloved cars and match them against tracked vehicles with heavier armour, and revolving turrets, armed with big-bored, quick-firing guns.

The revolving turrets were torn from their seatings, neatly bisecting the men at the waist, who stood in the hatches, as though with a gigantic pair of scissors.

He was still staring upwards as the tanks stopped, rocking gently on their suspensions, and the turrets with the long Spandaus traversed around towards him.

Dragon whirled briefly into view above those gray turrets, there were shouts and curses on the boats, and a brief faltering of oars.

They had passed several with turrets and rounded windows that swung open, but nothing about them had reached out to her.

The starlight played over the cancerous, cobbled skin and Annadale saw that the smooth curves and faceted turrets of the First Days had been replaced by harsh angles and rough surfaces.