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A low, heavily armored structure, usually rotating horizontally, containing mounted guns and their gunners or crew, as on a warship or tank.
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  1. A low, heavily armored structure, usually rotating horizontally, containing mounted guns and their gunners or crew, as on a warship or tank.
  2. A domelike gunner's enclosure projecting from the fuselage of a combat aircraft.
  3. A transparent dome for a gun and gunner, as on a bomber
Find another word for steeple. In this page you can discover 4 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for steeple, like: turret, pointed belfry, tourelle (French) and tower.

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  • A nearby steeple had been broken off short and the fragments lay heaped beside it.

  • The old South Church Tower, a steeple and clock tower, 144 ft.

  • The story is that the Abbot of St Augustine, Canterbury, diverted the funds by which the sea-wall protecting Earl Godwin's island was kept up, for the purpose of building Tenterden steeple, the consequence being that in 1099 an inundation took place and ."Tenterden steeple was the cause of the Goodwin Sands."

  • The belfry on the Grand Place was built in 1187, partly reconstructed in 1391 and finally restored and endowed with a steeple in 1852.

  • Of a Franciscan friary there remains the Perpendicular Grey Friars' Steeple, and the doorway remains of a priests' college founded in 1502.

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