Tŭr'ret, n.

n. [O. Fr. tourette, diminutive of tower, Lat. turris, tower.]

1. A little tower; a small eminence or spire attached to a building and rising above it. “And lift her turrets nearer to the sky.” Pope.
2. (Anc. Mil.) A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories, and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaches to a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.