turret farm

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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