Noun: Martello tower
| Singular | Martello tower |
| Plural | Martello towers |
Sample Sentences
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The martello towers was put up for the Guernsey people to get in out of the way of the Grand Saracen. [1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 309:]
Nouns inflected like Martello tower
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From a corruption of Corsican Torra di Mortella (literally “Tower of Mortella”), a tower in Corsica which was used as the basis for the design; possibly influenced by Italian martello (“hammer”). See: Italian Nouns '
martello'.