turret.

1. A small tower rising from or projecting from a larger building.

2. A rotating enclosure or mounting that carries one or more weapons.

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Words that belong together

• corner turret
• round turret
• turret roof

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A round turret rose above the house’s eastern corner.

The turret contained a room barely wide enough for a bed.

Its conical roof distinguished the turret from the flat-roofed wings.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture. Forms: Singular turret; plural turrets. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.