Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variant of
toret .
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Examples
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Specialist Castner kept watch as the convoy approached Talial (ph) from the south, using his camera and his perch in the humvee gunner's torret to capture the moment.
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Incipit ex illo montes Appulia notes Oftentare mihi, quos torret Atabulus: et quos '
The Works of Horace 1780
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It wouldn’t surprise me if there are one or two reasonable comments in the torret of posts that invariably follows one of his random, inane anti-“Darwinist” rants, but I can’t be arsed to pick them out.
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[Footnote 1: Insignem tenui fronte Lycorida Cyri torret amor --
Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781
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Nam vifi mora Numinis Mi {acrts aaimam torret in igaibiis*
Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael van der Ketten 1791
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