Meanings
nounsummer-tower (plural summer-towers)
plural summer-towers
- movable tower used in sieges
Scales, ladderes, & somertoures [L. ad capiendos muros scalae vel machinae] and alle suche gynnes..ben Iordeyned to clymbe vp walles & toures.
1408, tr. Vegetius, De Re Militari (Douce) f. 110Synonyms: summercastle
Synonyms & antonyms
nounmovable tower used in sieges
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