English » English  |
Top  |
| Tower |
A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion. |
n. |
|
|
| Tower |
A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher. |
n. |
| Tower |
A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower. |
n. |
| Tower |
A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense. |
n. |
| Tower |
A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress. |
n. |
|
English » English Indirect results |
Top  |
| Martello tower |
A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction. |
|
| Water tower |
A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings. |
|
| Conning tower |
The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel. |
n. |
|
|