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A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction.

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  1. A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction.
  2. n. a circular masonry fort for coastal defence
  3. A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction. Note: The English borrowed the name of the tower from Corsica in 1794.
  4. A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected onthe seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversingplatform, so as to be fired in any direction.