a. [f. TURRET sb. 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 sb. 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 sb. 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 recurved 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.
