turreted, a.
(ˈtʌrɪtɪd)
[f. turret n.1 or v.]
1. Furnished with or having a turret or turrets.
a 1550 [see triple a. C. a]. 1552 Huloet, Turretted or made full of turrettes, turritus. 1794 Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho vi, The one [avenue] leading to the turreted chateau. 1826 Disraeli Viv. Grey ii. iv, Over the gateway there rose a turreted tower. 1863 Geo. Eliot Romola xxvi, It was a grand moment for those who were stationed on turreted roofs. |
2. Furnished with something resembling a turret: cf. turret n.1 2, 3. a. Of artificial things; spec. applied to a figure of a crown with battlements, or of a head (or person) wearing such a crown.
1610 Holland Camden's Brit. (1637) 801 The Goddesse Svria..with a turreted crown on her head. 1626 [see turret n.1 3]. 1824 Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 120 No bonnet could hold the turreted cap. 1837 Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857) I. 189 Turretted ships. 1872 Head Sel. Grk. Coins in Electrotype Brit. Mus. 37 Head of Kybele.., wearing turreted crown. Ibid. 42 Turreted female figure, city of Antioch, seated..on rock. |
b. Of natural objects; spec. of a shell with a long spire: = turrited.
1826 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 306 Turreted... When the head is producted into a kind of columnar re⁓curved turret or rostrum, in the sides of which, towards the end, the eyes are fixed. 1828 Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. II. 30 Terebra,..Shell elongated, turreted, acuminate. 1872 Nicholson Palæont. 62 In other cases, the shell becomes turreted or top-shaped, in consequence of the coils of the spiral passing obliquely round a central axis. 1875 C. C. Blake Zool. 254 In the Pyramidellidæ the shell is spiral and turreted. |