See turret on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 1:",
"text": "Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,\nHas flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:\nAnd Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught\nThe Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.",
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{
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{
"word": "turret revolver"
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{
"word": "turret ship"
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{
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{
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"ref": "1836, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., “Poetry: A Metrical Essay”, republished in The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, 1862, OCLC 5091562, pages 7–8",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kulička",
"sense": "a little tower",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "куличка"
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "a little tower",
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"word": "torrelló"
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a little tower",
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"masculine"
],
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a little tower",
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"masculine"
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a little tower",
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "a little tower",
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "a little tower",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tourelle"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a little tower",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Tourelle"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a little tower",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "Türmchen"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a little tower",
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"neuter"
],
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a little tower",
"word": "tornyocska"
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"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "a little tower",
"tags": [
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a little tower",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "torretta"
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"sense": "a little tower",
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"sense": "a little tower",
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"feminine"
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"word": "touothelle"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "a little tower",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a little tower",
"tags": [
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"word": "torreta"
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"sense": "a little tower",
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"sense": "a little tower",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a little tower",
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"word": "torn"
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"sense": "a little tower",
"word": "bashnya"
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"sense": "a little tower",
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"word": "tyred"
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"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "a little tower",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "tŵr bach"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "obsadna kula",
"sense": "a movable building",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "обсадна кула"
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"sense": "a movable building",
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"masculine"
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"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "a movable building",
"word": "piiramistorn"
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"sense": "a movable building",
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"feminine"
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"word": "осадная башня"
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"tags": [
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"word": "тура"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a movable building",
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"neuter"
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"word": "belägringstorn"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "orǎdejna kula",
"sense": "a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "оръдейна кула"
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "torreta"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pào tǎ",
"sense": "a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates",
"word": "炮塔"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "geschutskoepel"
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "pantserkoepel"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates",
"word": "tykkitorni"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Turm"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates",
"word": "torony"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates",
"word": "lövegtorony"
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"sense": "a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates",
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"word": "wieżyczka"
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"sense": "a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "ба́шенка"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kupola"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "torreta"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates",
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