turret

n.

1. A small tower or tower-shaped projection on a building.
2. 1. A low, heavily armored structure, usually rotating horizontally, containing mounted guns and their gunners or crew, as on a warship or tank.
   2. A domelike gunner's enclosure projecting from the fuselage of a combat aircraft.
3. A tall wooden structure mounted on wheels and used in ancient warfare by besiegers to scale the walls of an enemy fortress.
4. An attachment for a lathe consisting of a rotating cylindrical block holding various cutting tools.
5. A rotating device holding various lenses, as for a microscope, allowing easy switching from one lens to another.

[Middle English turet, from Old French torete, diminutive of tor, tower. See tower.]

n. a low, flat armored tower, typically one that revolves, for a gun and gunners in a ship, aircraft, fort, or tank.

turreted adj.

See the Introduction, Abbreviations and Pronunciation for further details.

1. Small or subordinate tower normally forming part of a larger structure, especially a rounded addition to the angle of a building, sometimes commencing on corbels at some height from the ground, and usually containing a spiral stair.

2. Round tower of great height in proportion to its diameter.

3. Small circular tower on the top of a large tower, often at the corners, called tourelle, usually with a conical or domical roof, so known as a pepper-pot turret. Such subsidiary turrets are found in crenellated and Scottish Baronial architecture, and may also be capped by spires, pinnacles, or ogee-headed tops.

Bibliography

• MacG&R (1887–92)
• W. Papworth (1892)

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Small tower projecting outwards from the face of a wall and usually higher than the wall itself. Widely used on defensive structures from later prehistoric times onwards.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - lille tårn, kanontårn, pansertårn, revolverhoved

Nederlands (Dutch)
torentje, geschuttoren

Français (French)
n. - (Archit, Mil, Phot, Tech) tourelle

Deutsch (German)
n. - Türmchen, Geschützturm, Revolverkopf

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - πυργίσκος, (αρχιτ.) ακρόπυργος

Italiano (Italian)
torretta

Português (Portuguese)
n. - turreão (m), torre de tiro (m), revólver (m)

Русский (Russian)
бойница, бронированная башня

Español (Spanish)
n. - torrecilla, torreta

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - (litet) torn, manövertorn, stridsvagnstorn

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
小塔, 炮塔, 塔楼

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 小塔, 炮塔, 塔樓

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 작은 탑, 선회 포탑, 바퀴 달린 사닥다리

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 小塔, 攻城用移動やぐら, 旋回砲塔, ターレット, やぐら, 砲塔

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) أداة تصوير فوتوغرافيه أو تلفزيونيه متعددة ألعدسات, برج الهجوم‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮צריח, מגדל קישוטי הבולט מקיר בניין, צריח-ירי מסתובב באוניה, מטוס, מבצר או טנק, מחזיק כלים מסתובב במחרטה‬

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