Associations to the word «Turret»

Wiktionary

TURRET, noun. (architecture) a little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle
TURRET, noun. (historical) (military) 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
TURRET, noun. (military) an armoured, rotating gun installation, on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle
TURRET, noun. (railroads) the elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car. Its sides are pierced for light and ventilation
TURRET, noun. (electronics) a tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes)
TURRET DECK, noun. A narrow superstructure running from stem to stern on the upper deck of a steam cargo vessel having a rounded gunwale and sides curved inward convexly.
TURRET HEAD, noun. A vertical cylindrical revolving tool-holder for bringing different tools into action successively in a machine, as in a lathe.
TURRET LATHE, noun. A turning lathe having a turret head.
TURRET SHIP, noun. A warship of the 19th century, having the guns mounted in a revolving turret, instead of a broadside arrangement.
TURRET STEAMER, noun. (historical) A whaleback steamer with a hatch coaming, usually about seven feet high, extending almost continuously fore and aft.
TURRET STEAMERS, noun. Plural of turret steamer

Dictionary definition

TURRET, noun. A small tower extending above a building.
TURRET, noun. A self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats