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turret

[ UK /tˈʌɹɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈtɝət, ˈtɝt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation
  2. a small tower extending above a building

How To Use turret In A Sentence

  • Each casemate mounted a three-gun battery of either 100mm or 150mm, and the southern side received additional cover from a detached fort mounting three 100mm gun turrets. Steel Victory
  • Earlier, in the B turret of the Achilles, there had been a temporary delay in the shell supply, and the gunhouse crews took the ready-use shells from their racks and fed them into the guns. Graf Spee
  • He had been standing in the turret of a tank with his friend when the tank was hit. EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER: A Journey Through the Science of Feelings
  • Three smoke grenade dischargers are mounted on each side of the turret.
  • Bob squeezed his muscular shoulders into the narrow confines of the top turret.
  • Vehicles would move to ‘points of domination’ (the intersections) to maximize the ability to traverse the turret and use the CITV.
  • Black, a popular color at this time, accents her turret and frontlet, collar, cuffs, and wide hem. Fashion in Art: Medieval France and the Netherlands
  • The armoured turret has both laying and stabilisation drives and power supply.
  • In the TK 105 turret, for daytime operations, the commander is provided with wide field episcopes and a 360° panoramic M389 sight with x 2 and x 8 magnifications.
  • This must have been owing to her recollection of the audacious stranger in the neighbouring turret at the Fleur de Lys; but did that discomposure express displeasure? Quentin Durward
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