Towered

a. [f. TOWER sb.¹ and v. + -ED.]

  1.  Having a tower or towers; adorned or defended by towers; bearing or surmounted by a tower; raised or rising on high like a tower.

c. 1400.  Sege Jerus., 863. Þis toured toun is tenful to wynne.

c. 1430.  Seven Sag. (P.), 2842. Who hys thys castel, That hys touryde and kernelde wel?

a. 1552.  Leland, Itin., II. 67. The Tourrid Steple of the Paroche Chirch.

1632.  Milton, L’Allegro, 117. Towred Cities please us then.

1706.  Hearne, Collect., 19 Jan. (O.H.S.), I. 165. Cybele … is represented with a Tower’d Head.

1796.  W. H. Marshall, W. England, II. 208. The towered height of Stourton forms a prominent feature.

c. 1820.  S. Rogers, Italy, Alps, 24. The towered elephant Upheld his trunk.

1832.  Tennyson, Lady of Shalott, I. iv. From the river winding clearly Down to tower’d Camelot.

1909.  Rider Haggard, Yellow God, 42. The mullioned windows, the towered gateway of red brick,… were all of them perfect in their way.

  † 2.  Immured in a tower; committed to the Tower of London. (Cf. prisoned.) Obs.

1716.  M. Davies, Athen. Brit., II. 409. The two that turn’d Non-jurors with the t’other five tower’d Bishops.

1750.  Student (1751), II. 22. The noble Septemvirate of tower’d Prelates.

  3.  Of a wounded bird: That has ‘towered.’

1827.  Col. Hawker, Diary (1893), I. 320. Besides A towered and lost birds.