Definitions for turret

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turret tur·ret

Spelling: [tur-it, tuhr-]

IPA: /ˈtɜr ɪt, ˈtʌr-/

Turret is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in turret (errttu).

Definitions for turret

noun

1. a small tower, usually one forming part of a larger structure.
2. a small tower at an angle of a building, as of a castle or fortress, frequently beginning some distance above the ground.
3. Also called turrethead [tur-it-hed, tuhr-] /ˈtɜr ɪtˌhɛd, ˈtʌr-/ (Show IPA). a pivoted attachment on a lathe or the like for holding a number of tools, each of which can be presented to the work in rapid succession by a simple rotating movement.
4. Military. a domelike, sometimes heavily armored structure, usually revolving horizontally, within which guns are mounted, as on a fortification, ship, or aircraft.
5. Fortification. a tall structure, usually moved on wheels, formerly employed in breaching or scaling a fortified place, a wall, or the like.

Origin of turret

1300-50; Middle English turet Middle French turete, equivalent to tur tower¹ + -ete -et

Examples for turret

The turret in which Dr. Frank and I now stood was perched here.

The stairway was very narrow, and formed a regular spiral as in a turret.

There had simultaneously been an encounter up in the turret.

Luck was with them, as they found after some observations from the turret.

The southern and the eastern windows of the turret chamber were open.

Yet here in the turret, unguarded by insulation, I could say nothing.

One eager father even shoved his young daughter up in a turret with a soldier.

The slide wraps around the castle like an old helter skelter and the castle is a play den with turret.

They were standing near the foot of the turret, where the alarm-bell hung.

Using fingerprints, one was identified as U.S. Army Pvt. James Bowman, who had been in the turret of the car next to Gordon.