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• CUPOLA (Ital., from Lat. cupula, small cask or vault, cupa, tub)

CUPOLA (Ital., from See also:

• LAT

Lat. cupula, small cask or vault, cupa, tub)  , a See also:

• TERM

term, in See also:

• ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, for a spherical or spheroidal covering to a See also:

• BUILDING

building, or to any See also:

• PART

part of it . In fortification the word is used of a See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of armoured structure, in which guns or howitzers are mounted . It is a See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

low See also:

• FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat See also:

• TURRET (from O. Fr. tourette, diminutive of tour, tower, mod. Fr. tourelle)

turret resembling an overturned saucer and showing little above the ground except the muzzles of the guns . See for details and illustrations FORTIFICATION AND SIEGECRAFT; also See also:

• ORDNANCE (a syncopated form of " ordinance " or " ordonnance," so spelt in this sense since the 17th century)

ORDNANCE .