tower
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1. tower - Noun
2. tower - Verb
3. Tower - Proper noun
Meaning
A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.
A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher.
A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower.
A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.
A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.
High flight; elevation.
To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.
To soar into.
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If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.
On a trip to Germany, Lange and his entourage were climbing the tower of an ancient castle when they stopped to catch their breath. "How old is this ruin?" someone asked a guide. "Forty-two years," said Lange.
A fool will not give his Bauble for the Tower of London.
Let my lamp at midnight hour be seen in some high lonely tower.
There is but one road out of the tower and that leads to the scaffold.