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tur·ret·ed  (tûr-td, tr-)
adj.
1. Furnished with turrets or a turret.
2. Having the shape or form of a turret, as certain long-spired gastropod shells.

turreted [ˈtʌrɪtɪd], turriculate [tʌˈrɪkjʊlɪt -ˌleɪt], turriculated
adj
1. having or resembling a turret or turrets
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) (of a gastropod shell) having the shape of a long spiral
Translations
turreted
adj a turreted castleein Schloss mit Mauer- or Ecktürmen


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He pointed with a smile to a turreted nunnery, and his eyes narrowed and gleamed.
We landed under the walls of a little fort, armed with batteries of twelve-and-thirty-two-pounders, which Horta considered a most formidable institution, but if we were ever to get after it with one of our turreted monitors, they would have to move it out in the country if they wanted it where they could go and find it again when they needed it.
Some of these cabins were turreted, some had false windows painted on their rotten walls; one had a mimic clock, upon a crazy tower of four feet high, which screened the chimney; each in its little patch of ground had a rude seat or arbour.
 
 
 
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