Also 4 torel, -elle, tourel, towrelle, turel, -eile. [a. F. tourelle, dim. of tour TOWER.] A turret.

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13[?].  Cursor M., 10005 (Cott.). Þe four torels [v.rr. turret, trettis, turrettes] on hei er sett.

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c. 1330.  R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 178. A darte … com fro þat tureile, þat R[ichard] had doun smyten.

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13[?].  K. Alis., 7173 (Bodl. MS.). He haþ taken myne castels, He haþ afelled myne Tourels [v.r. torellis].

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13[?].  Coer de L., 1841. A castel … With six stages ful of towrelles, Wel flourished with cornelles.

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1840.  Louisa S. Costello, Summer amongst Bocages, II. 218. Two beautiful and exquisitely carved tourelles.

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1895.  Crockett, Men of Moss-Hags, 391. In the little sunlit tourelle at Earlstoun.

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