summer-tower

noun

summer-tower

noun

1

movable tower used in sieges

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

Synonyms: summercastle

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