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Siege tower
wooden tower on wheels which attackers used to climb over castle walls
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Bastille, Bastille: Originally, a kind of siege tower, later the term was used to refer to a tower which had the curtain walls and the flanking towers at the same height, ...
" Whatever the meaning of the original Germanic source, its Old French descendant berfrei, which first meant "siege tower," came to mean "watchtower." Presumably because bells were used in these towers, the word was applied to bell towers as well.
 See also: Tower, Frame, Timber, Medieval, Church
  
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