turret

turret englannista suomeksi

1. torni

2. tykkitorni

0. Substantiivi

1. tykkitorni

turret englanniksi

1. A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.

2. 1836, (w), “Poetry: A Metrical Essay”, republished in ''The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes'', Boston, Mass.: (w), 1862, (w) 5091562, pages 7–8:

There breathes no being but has some pretence / To that fine instinct called poetic sense; (..) / The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.

3. (quote-book)

4. A 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, bridges, and other necessaries.

5. A tower-like solder post on a board (a board with posts instead of holes).

6. An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or fighting vehicle.

7. The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.