Chapter TUCKEED to TURA of T by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

of Chanderi) “overseers and pioneers were appointed to construct works on which the guns were to be planted. All the men of the army were directed to prepare tûras and scaling-ladders, and to serve the tûras which are used in attacking forts.…”—Ibid. p. 376. The editor’s note at the former passage is: “The meaning (viz. ‘breastwork’) assigned to Tûra here, and in several other places is merely conjectural, founded on Petis de la Croix’s explanation, and on the meaning given by Meninski to Tûr, viz. reticulatus. The Tûras may have been formed by the branches of trees, interwoven like basket-work … or they may have been covered defences from arrows and missiles.…”Again: “These Tûras, so often mentioned, appear to have been a sort of testudo, under cover of which the assailants advanced, and sometimes breached the wall.…”

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