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Definition of Martellos
1. martello [n] - See also: martello
Lexicographical Neighbors of Martellos
Literary usage of Martellos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. In the South Seas: Being an Account of Experiences and Observations in the by Robert Louis Stevenson (1896)
"I was told they were to protect the isle against inroads from the sea — divine
or diabolical martellos, probably sacred to ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1811)
"Of the compound •there may be about fifteen hundred or two thousand loads left,
which is now throwing wastefully about on the glacis of one of the martellos ..."
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