TOUT le monde haute, Fr. A French word of command at sea which corresponds with our sea phrase, Pipe! all hands up.
TOUT le monde bas, Fr. A French word of command at sea which corresponds with Pipe! all hands down.
Toute volee, Fr. Random shot.
Tirer a toute volee. To fire at random.
TOWER, (Tour, Fr.) Any high building raised above another, consisting of several stories, usually of a round form, though sometimes square or polygonal; a fortress, a citadel. Towers are built for fortresses, prisons, &c. as the tower of the Bastille, which was destroyed by the inhabitants of Paris in 1789.
The Tower of London, commonly called the Tower. A building with five small turrets at different angles above it, situated on the banks of the river Thames.
The Tower of London is not only a citadel to defend and command the city, river, &c. but it is also a royal palace, where the kings of England with their courts have sometimes lodged; a royal arsenal, wherein are stored arms and ammunition for 60,000 soldiers; a treasury for the jewels and ornaments of the crown; a mint for coining money; the archives wherein are preserved all the ancient records of the courts of Westminster, &c. and the chief prison for state delinquents. The officers belonging to the Tower of London consist of
| per ann. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | constable and chief governor at | 1000 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | lieutenant governor, at | 700 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | deputy lieutenant, at | 365 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | major, at | 182 | 10 | 0 |
| 1 | chaplain, at | 121 | 13 | 4 |
| 1 | gentleman porter, at | 84 | 0 | 8 |
| 1 | gentleman gaoler, at | 70 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | physician, at | 182 | 10 | 0 |
| 1 | surgeon, at | 45 | 12 | 6 |
| 1 | apothecary, 1 yeoman porter | |||
Tower-bastions, in fortification, are small towers made in the form of bastions, by M. Vauban, in his second and third method; with rooms or cellars underneath to place men and guns in them.
Martello Tower. See [Tours Mobiles]