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  • noun Plural form of turret.

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Examples

  • It is designed to protect the vital parts of the ship from incoming shells (e.g. the main turrets and the engine room).

    Matthew Yglesias » Gulf Stability and the New Iraq 2009

  • In case you have no idea what this is, it's one of the lovable turrets from the XBox 360 (and PC) game called Portal, part of a collection called The Orange Box.

    Portal Turret Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2008

  • In each of the turrets is a winding stair communicating respectively with the main parts of the building.

    Ely Cathedral Anonymous

  • There's also a cutesy castle with big cone turrets which is the center for Clan Campbell.

    Archive 2009-05-01 C N Heidelberg 2009

  • There's also a cutesy castle with big cone turrets which is the center for Clan Campbell.

    Notes from Kilmartin and the Kintyre Peninsula C N Heidelberg 2009

  • The four mind-guard cells were located in the Castle's "turrets," that is to say at its four corners, which could only be reached along the perimeter corridor.

    Psychosphere Lumley, Brian 1984

  • In actual practice, the conditions are almost always complicated, either by necessities of mounting in particular places, such as turrets and casemates; or by the advantages attending the interchangeability of stores, or other circumstances; and it requires great watchfulness to keep abreast of the ever-growing improvements of the day.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various

  • The Princess asked them if he was married, and they shook their little top turrets, meaning that he was not.

    Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations Edmund Dulac 1917

  • One major concern is mobility - caster shamans are described as "turrets," which just sit and turn and cast.

    WoW.com 2009

  • You also have to deal with Rapture's still-active security systems such as turrets and security cams.

    POWET.TV 2009

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