summer-tower

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summer-tower (plural summer-towers)

  1. movable tower used in sieges
    • 1408, tr. Vegetius, De Re Militari (Douce) f. 110
      Scales, ladderes, & somertoures [L. ad capiendos muros scalae vel machinae] and alle suche gynnes..ben Iordeyned to clymbe vp walles & toures.

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