Martello tower

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A Martello tower in Essex, England

Etymology

Alteration of the name of Cape Mortella (Corsica), after (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian martello (“hammer”).

Noun

Martello tower (plural Martello towers)

  1. A short sturdy round masonry fort, especially one constructed at various coastal points in the British Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.
    • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 309:
      The martello towers was put up for the Guernsey people to get in out of the way of the Grand Saracen.

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