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noun

Conning tower n.

The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel. (archaic)

The raised structure rising above the deck of a submarine.

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Etymology of 'Conning tower'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Conning tower" Quotes from Famous Books

... find out where she lives and why she has nothing to do but meddle in affairs which do not concern her. Is she a lady? One would imagine she is not. One would also imagine that she lives in a solid well-repaired square brown stone house with a cupola used as a conning tower and equipped with periscope and telescope and wireless. Furthermore, her house is situated on a bleak hill so that nothing impedes her view and that of her two pets, a magpie and a jackal. And the business in life of all three of them is to track down and destroy the good name of every woman ...

— Etiquette • Emily Post

... column edited by a man of letters, whose business it is to fill it every day, either with the blossoms of his own intelligence or of outside contributors, or a little of each: such a column as Don Marquis edits for The Sun, called "The Sundial," and Franklin R. Adams for The Tribune, called "The Conning Tower," and Christopher Morley for the New York Evening Post, called "The Bowling Green." Perhaps the unsigned "Way of the World" in our Morning Post is ...

— Roving East and Roving West • E.V. Lucas

Words linked to "Conning tower" : wheelhouse, bridge, bridge deck, submarine, combat ship, sub, pigboat, war vessel, warship