Turret

Etymology
From, from (French ), diminutive of , from. See tower.

Noun

 * 1)  A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
 * 2) * 1836,, “Poetry: A Metrical Essay”, republished in The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Mass.: , 1862, 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.
 * 1)  A siege 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, casting bridges, and other necessaries.
 * 2)  A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
 * 3)  An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.
 * 4)  The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.

Translations

 * Catalan: torrelló
 * Dutch: hoektoren, geschuttoren, hoektorentje, geschuttorentje
 * Esperanto: tureto
 * French:
 * German: Tourelle, ,
 * Irish: túirín
 * Italian:


 * Maori: maihi
 * Norman: touothelle
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: torreta
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish: turell,, vakttorn, utkikstorn
 * Uzbek:
 * Welsh: tyred, tŵr bach


 * Dutch: belegeringstoren
 * Russian: осадная башня,


 * Swedish: belägringstorn


 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: geschutskoepel, pantserkoepel
 * Finnish:


 * German:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish: torreta
 * Swedish: kanontorn