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Tower Hear!
A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.
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Tower Hear!
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.
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Tower Hear!
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.
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Tower Hear!
A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.
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Tower Hear!
A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.
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Martello tower Hear!
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.