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Blockhouse   /blˈɑkhˌaʊs/   Listen
Blockhouse

noun
1.
A stronghold that is reinforced for protection from enemy fire; with apertures for defensive fire.





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"Blockhouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... Brooklyn by now," I said, "at 600 Abingdon Avenue, laying out Chapter One. What do you mean by following me this way? You nearly frightened me to death last night. I felt like one of Fenimore Cooper's heroines, shut up in the blockhouse while the redskins ...
— Parnassus on Wheels • Christopher Morley
... the "inclines" which carried passengers from the river level to the top of the heights above, motored among the handsome residences and ended, on the way to the station, with a flying visit to the old blockhouse which is all that is left ...
— Ethel Morton's Enterprise • Mabell S.C. Smith
... they rested at a point but a few miles from the mouth of the Richelieu River, where a large blockhouse, Fort Richelieu, had been built by M. de Saurel. Once past this they had no great distance to go to reach the seigneury of De Catinat's friend of the noblesse who would help them upon their way. They had spent the night upon a little island in midstream, and at early dawn they ...
— The Refugees • Arthur Conan Doyle
... their time here, the 4th, 21st, and 44th, being landed above the fort, were busied in the siege. This small work stands, as I have stated, at the extremity of a promontory. Towards the sea its fortifications are respectable enough, but on the land side it is little better than a blockhouse. The ramparts being composed of sand, not more than three feet in thickness, are faced with plank barely cannon-proof; whilst a sand-hill rising within pistol-shot of the ditch, completely commands them. Within, again, the fort is as much wanting in accommodation as it is ...
— The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 • G. R. Gleig


Words linked to "Blockhouse" :   fastness, stronghold


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