Also 4 torel, -elle, tourel, towrelle, turel, -eile. [a. F. tourelle, dim. of tour TOWER.] A turret.
13[?]. Cursor M., 10005 (Cott.). Þe four torels [v.rr. turret, trettis, turrettes] on hei er sett.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 178. A darte com fro þat tureile, þat R[ichard] had doun smyten.
13[?]. K. Alis., 7173 (Bodl. MS.). He haþ taken myne castels, He haþ afelled myne Tourels [v.r. torellis].
13[?]. Coer de L., 1841. A castel With six stages ful of towrelles, Wel flourished with cornelles.
1840. Louisa S. Costello, Summer amongst Bocages, II. 218. Two beautiful and exquisitely carved tourelles.
1895. Crockett, Men of Moss-Hags, 391. In the little sunlit tourelle at Earlstoun.