stairtower

English

Etymology

stair +‎ tower

Noun

stairtower (plural stairtowers)

1. A tower with stairs on the inside.

   The castle had four stairtowers when it was built, but only two remain.

   • 2001, Flavia Alaya, Under the Rose: A Confession, page 114:

     We faced each other from opposite walls of the well-rubbed stairtower poised in an unblinking lovesickly gaze.