Definition of tower

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Tower (n.) A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower..

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Daw :: Daw (n.) A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw..
Towery :: Towery (a.) Having towers; adorned or defended by towers.
Barbacan :: Barbacan (n.) A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own..
Tower :: Tower (n.) A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress..
Phare :: Phare (n.) A beacon tower; a lighthouse.
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1..
Water Tower :: Water tower () A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings..
Mount :: Mount (n.) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
Tower :: Tower (v. t.) To soar into.
Tower :: Tower (n.) A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion..
Turret :: Turret (n.) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure..
Tor :: Tor (n.) A tower; a turret.
Tower :: Tower (n.) A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher..
Castle :: Castle (n.) A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back..
Overbulk :: Overbulk (v. t.) To oppress by bulk; to overtower.
Belfry :: Belfry (n.) A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola or turret for the same purpose.
Lantern :: Lantern (n.) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns..
Tower :: Tower (n.) A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense..
Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound..
Towered :: Towered (a.) Adorned or defended by towers.
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