Definition of "gun turret" []

• A self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "While this was going on, the 747’s belly-mounted gun turret continued to swing left and right, raining hell on Kallis’s pursuing swampboats and the two remaining Apaches, keeping them at bay."
• "*An explosion in the U.S.S. Iowa’s gun turret had killed forty-seven sailors on April 19 while the ship was participating in naval exercises near Puerto Rico."
• "On June 6, Seydlitz was moved inside the harbor gates, but another week of caulking and pumping was necessary and the two 11-inch guns of the port wing gun turret were stripped out."