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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 mar·tel·lo tower /mɑrˈtɛlo-/

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mar·tel·lo tow·er  Fort. A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction.
 Note: ☞ The English borrowed the name of the tower from Corsica in 1794.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 martello tower
      n : a circular masonry fort for coastal defence