Turret vs Rampart - What's the difference?
turret | rampart |
(label) a little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle
a siege tower; 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 approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries
(label) an armoured, rotating gun installation, on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle
(label) the elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car. Its sides are pierced for light and ventilation
(label) a tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes)
A defensive mound of earth or a wall with a broad top and usually a stone parapet; a wall-like ridge of earth, stones or debris; an embankment for defensive purpose.
A defensive structure; a protective barrier; a bulwark.
That which defends against intrusion from outside; a protection.
(usually, in the plural) A steep bank of a river or gorge.
To defend with a rampart; fortify or surround with a rampart.
* Coleridge
As nouns the difference between turret and rampart
is that turret is a little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle while rampart is a defensive mound of earth or a wall with a broad top and usually a stone parapet; a wall-like ridge of earth, stones or debris; an embankment for defensive purpose.As a verb rampart is
to defend with a rampart; fortify or surround with a rampart.turret
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*rampart
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(en verb)- Those grassy hills, those glittering dells, / Proudly ramparted with rocks.