turret
A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
Example
“Their Victorian house had three turrets and a large amount of gingerbread trim.”
Other meanings
A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.
A kind of
- tower
Related words
- multiturret
- turreted
- turretless
- turretlike
- ball turret
- blister turret
- gun turret
- trading turret
- turret board
- turret clock
- turret deck
- bell turret
Word history
From Latin "turris".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “turret” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.