Meaning of turret farm | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A battleship with an unusually-large number of main-battery turrets (generally five or more).
   informal
2. The main battery carried by such a battleship, or the major portion thereof.
   informal

Examples

“Turning to get a better bead on Princess Royal, the Prinzregent Luitpold catches a full salvo from HMS Agincourts massive turret farm' and vanishes in a roar of water and flame. Nothing is left once the smoke has cleared.”

“[…] and back in World War I, obviously, you had a lot of ships that either had amidships turrets, like the Iron Dukes, or ships that had big turret farms on the back, like Agincourt or the Wyomings, and, at that point, getting those aft guns around is obviously significantly more important than a single triple or something like that is in World War II[…]”

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