turret
炮塔,炮台,炮楼,炮炮塔
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- : a small tower, usually one forming part of a larger structure.
- : a small tower at an angle of a building, as of a castle or fortress, frequently beginning some distance above the ground.
- : Also called tur·ret·head [tur-it-hed, tuhr-]. /ˈtɜr ɪtˌhɛd, ˈtʌr-/. 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.
- : Military. a domelike, sometimes heavily armored structure, usually revolving horizontally, within which guns are mounted, as on a fortification, ship, or aircraft.
- : Fortification. a tall structure, usually moved on wheels, formerly employed in breaching or scaling a fortified place, a wall, or the like.
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The pressure wave hurled Huddleston against the turret wall, blew out his eardrums and wrenched his left shoulder so far out of its joint that his arm ended up behind his back.
One, you have to create wide moats and high towers and turrets to try and keep as many bad people out as possible.
Players aren’t taught in the tutorial which champions are best for certain roles, nor what they should do after they destroy the enemy’s first turret.
On its roof the armored version can bear the 441 pounds of the Hornet gun turret, Arquus' first venture into lightweight gun turrets.
Additionally, the weapon platform would carry an array of light cannons, with the gunner having 360 degrees field-of-view that was to be aided by a sighting turret at the top.
A fat red turret squatted at each corner of the building; six slender ones overlooked the parapets and gables.
Using fingerprints, one was identified as U.S. Army Pvt. James Bowman, who had been in the turret of the car next to Gordon.
He was in the forward gun turret where the destroyer hit us.
The slide wraps around the castle like an old helter skelter and the castle is a play den with turret.
One eager father even shoved his young daughter up in a turret with a soldier.
In fact, she was placed in a room—or rather an erection of three storeys or rooms—of stout lattice-work in a of the castle.