guerite
See also: guérite
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French guérite. Doublet of garret.
Noun
[edit]guerite (plural guerites)
- A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “guerite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)