Turrets
[tɜ:rɪts]
Examples
- In recent great battleships four turrets are used, each carrying three of these great guns, giving a broadside of twelve of these monster weapons of war. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A battleship thus armed is able to fire six guns ahead and six astern by raising the second and third turrets so as to fire over the others. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- That church, whose dark, half-ruinous turrets overlooked the square, was the venerable and formerly opulent shrine of the Magi. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- On the turrets the armor is from 6 to 15 inches thick, and on the barbettes it is from 6 to 17 inches thick. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The spiky points of the fir trees behind the house rose into the sky like the turrets and pinnacles of an abbey. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- From the mountain's peak its broken turrets rise above the groves of ancient oaks and olives, and look wonderfully picturesque. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Powerful as these guns appear to be, their big brothers in the revolving turrets are far more so. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Her side armor is 3 inches thick, her turrets 5? inches, her barbettes from 4 to 8 inches, and her deck from 3 to 6 inches. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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