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• n  a small tower extending above a building
• n  a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation

• One hundred and forty years after its guns fell silent, the turret of the Union ironclad Monitor was pulled from the ocean last week, bearing secrets.
• His "trading turret" reports arm do-it-yourself Web investors going up against Wall Street pros.
• The separated turret protruded slightly from under the hull.

• gun enclosure
• gun turret

News & Articles

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• Ceremony recognizes turning point in World War II
  Retired Cmdr. Harry Ferrier still owns the baseball cap he wore the day he was hit in the head by Japanese gunfire and fell unconscious. Some 20,000 feet in the air, 17-year-old radioman and gunner Ferrier came to with a gunshot to the wrist, the aircraft’s turret gunner dead and his pilot wounded in a malfunctioning TBF-1 Avenger.
  June 10, 2013 - Whidbey News Times
• St. Gregory's to receive first replacement turret
  The turrets of Benedictine Hall will soon rise into the Oklahoma sky again at St. Gregory's University.
  June 7, 2013 - News On 6 Tulsa

Quotes

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• Tony Benn in Independent
  The flag of the United States of America that I fought under, that streamed out behind my gun turret, that has covered the coffins of friends, that flag doesn't belong to the president, it doesn't belong to a party, it doesn't belong to an... John Kerry http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGeVo7lZZrVLxpZYOe1L2RWeIhupQ FOXNews http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,125497,00.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEtf1bWXtdFyNiLnNZ4n6iFFDZFqA Jul 13, 2004 102704 136374 turret I wouldn't have liked a 67-year-old in my rear gun turret," Benn says.