watch tower

See also: watch-tower, watchtower, and Watchtower

English

Noun

watch tower (plural watch towers)

1. Alternative form of watchtower.
   • 1794, Charlotte Smith, “Avis au Lecteur”, in The Banished Man. […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, pages iii–iv:

     For my part, who can now no longer build chateaux even en Eſpagne, I find that Mowbray Caſtle, Graſmere Abbey, the caſtle of Rock-March, the caſtle of Hauteville, and Rayland Hall, have taken ſo many of my materials to conſtruct, that I have hardly a watch tower, a Gothic arch, a cedar parlour, or a long gallery, an illuminated window, or a ruined chapel, left to help myſelf.

   • 1858, [Louisa Matilda Spooner], Gladys of Harlech; an Historical Romance, volume I, London: Charles J. Skeet, […], page 37:

     They were interrupted by the entrance of a youth from one of the watch towers of the castle, who communicated intelligence that the army of the Yorkists was in sight.

   • 1931 July 13, Commerce Reports, number 28, page 112, column 1:

     The walls, moats, gates, and watch towers of the castle remain, but the main keep has not been rebuilt; […]