Usually means: Control tower on a submarine.
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  1. conning tower: Merriam-Webster
  2. conning tower: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. conning tower: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. conning tower: Collins English Dictionary
  5. conning tower: Vocabulary.com
  6. conning-tower, conning tower: Wordnik
  7. conning tower: Wiktionary
  8. conning tower: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. conning tower: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Conning tower, conning tower: Dictionary.com
  11. Conning tower: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Conning tower: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. conning tower: Rhymezone
  14. Conning tower: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. conning tower: FreeDictionary.org
  16. conning tower: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. conning tower: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. conning tower: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. conning tower: Encyclopedia

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  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (conning tower)

noun:  (nautical) The armoured control tower of an early iron warship from which the ship was navigated in battle.
noun:  (nautical) A connecting structure between the bridge and pressure hull of a submarine; in larger, modern submarines it contains the captain's cabin and is known as the sail.

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