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ROUND TOWER

Definition: ROUND TOWER

ROUND TOWER

1. One of certain lofty circular stone towers, tapering from the base upward, and usually having a conical cap or roof, which crowns the summit, -- found chiefly in Ireland. They are of great antiquity, and vary in heigh from thirty-five to one hundred and thiry feet.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: ROUND TOWER

Specialty definitions using "ROUND TOWER": Malakoff ♦ Saxon Characteristics ♦ TOWER. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Round tower

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A round tower was a place of both refuge and storage, built in the vacinity of a church or monastery, although many have become attached to other buildings because of extensions to the original churches. These are not to be confused with the round tower churches which can be found in England.

Round towers are mostly found in Ireland and Scotland, where they were built as a means of defense against Viking raiders. A lookout was posted at the top of the tower; when a Viking longboat was spotted, the local population would enter the tower, using a ladder which would be raised from within. The towers were also used to store religios relics, and other pluderables.

A famous example of a round tower is at Devenish, an island on Lough Erne in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

Devenish was a monastic settlement connected with Saint Molaise.

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Round tower."

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Modern Usage: ROUND TOWER

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Movie/TV Titles

The Round Tower (1998)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: ROUND TOWER

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Old round tower and new barracks, Ft. Snelling, Minn. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Old round tower, Fort Snelling, Minn. Credit: Library of Congress.

Walls and round tower by the water, New Orleans or Charleston, South Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ROUND TOWER

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

the round tower

8

gaa round tower

3

round tower travel

2

portsmouth round tower

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: ROUND TOWER

Language Translations for "ROUND TOWER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Manx

  

Yn Cleiyagh (The Round Tower), Cleiyagh yn Chastal (The Round Tower). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oundray owertay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ROUND TOWER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-n-o-o-r-r-t-u-w"

-2 letters: outrowed, undertow, unrooted.

-3 letters: drowner, duotone, nutwood, orotund, outdoer, outdone, outdrew, outrode, outwore, outworn, redroot, rewound, rondure, rounder, unwooed.

-4 letters: detour, dourer, downer, droner, enduro, enroot, ordure, outrow, redout, retorn, return, reword, rodent, rooted, rooter, rotund, routed, router, tenour, torero, toured, tourer, trowed, turned, turner, undoer, undrew, unroot, untrod, wonder, wonted, wooden.

-5 letters: donor.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-n-o-o-r-r-t-u-w"
 

+2 letters: counterworld.

 

+3 letters: counterworlds.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ROUND TOWER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 4F 55 4E 44      54 4F 57 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01001111 01010101 01001110 01000100 00100000 01010100 01001111 01010111 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#79 &#85 &#78 &#68 &#32 &#84 &#79 &#87 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 004F 0055 004E 0044      0054 004F 0057 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

524955483825449573952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Photo Album 		5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography 		9. Bibliography


  

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