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Tower

noun

A structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building.

Anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower. Synonyms: column, pillar. "A tower of dust rose above the horizon" , "A thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite"

A powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships. Synonyms: towboat, tug, tugboat.

verb

(past & past part. towered; pres. part. towering)

Appear very large or occupy a commanding position. Synonyms: hulk, loom, predominate. "Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall"

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"Tower" Quotes from Famous Books

... criminal confessed that his loot had been secreted "in the tower." It remained for the Hardy Boys to clear ...

— The Rover Boys on a Hunt - or The Mysterious House in the Woods • Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)

... fisherman to the top of the castle tower, and there said to him, "According to the customs of the court you should, before being introduced to the princess, send her by my hands some valuable jewel as a ...

— Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen • Alexander Chodsko

... age of the world had Michael Angelo lived? At the same time with Petrarch and Galileo, and Tasso and—did she know about any other Italians? Oh, yes. Silvio Pellico,—wasn't he in prison and didn't he write about it? And was not the leaning tower of Pisa in Italy? Was that one of the Seven Wonders of the World? And weren't there Seven Wise Men of Greece? And wasn't there a story about the Seven Sleepers? But weren't they in Asia? And weren't the churches in Revelation ...

— Miss Prudence - A Story of Two Girls' Lives. • Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin

... and buttresses, out of bricks of a given shape, and that these bricks are all lying in a huge heap at the bottom, in utter confusion, upset out of carts at random. You would have to draw a great many plans, and count all your bricks, and be sure you had enough for this and that tower, before you began, and then you would have to lay your foundation, and add layer by layer, ...

— The Ethics of the Dust • John Ruskin

... summer, after the reduction of Lesbos, the Athenians under Nicias, son of Niceratus, made an expedition against the island of Minoa, which lies off Megara and was used as a fortified post by the Megarians, who had built a tower upon it. Nicias wished to enable the Athenians to maintain their blockade from this nearer station instead of from Budorum and Salamis; to stop the Peloponnesian galleys and privateers sailing out unobserved from the island, as they had been in the habit of doing; and at the same time prevent anything ...

— The History of the Peloponnesian War • Thucydides

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