Other forms: turrets
A turret is a small tower on the corner of a building. A corner turret, turrets and battlements, a turret window.
It projects from the wall rather than rising from the ground, which is what distinguishes it from a tower, and in castles it gave defenders a view along the wall face. Victorian architects added them decoratively to houses that had never needed defending. On a tank or a warship, the turret is the rotating housing for the gun. Note turreted; and that turret is a little tower, from the French.
1nounturretA small tower on the corner of a building.
“The old house had a little round turret on one corner, where the children loved to play.”
2nounrotatingThe rotating gun housing on a tank or ship.
“The tank's turret swung round slowly until the gun pointed at the bridge.”
turret is a small tower.
TURRET → a little TOWER on the corner
From the old word for a tower: a small tower stuck on the corner of the building, just big enough for one person and one window.
hooks ontotower
Old French torete is a diminutive of tour, a tower, from Latin turris. Tower, tor and the Italian torre come from the same tower.
Latin
turris
Old French
torete
Middle English
touret
English, today
turret
Built from
From Middle English touret, from Old French torete (French tourette), diminutive of tour (“tower”), from Latin turris. a doublet of tor and tourelle and tower. See tower.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA