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noun
Blockhouse  n.  
1.
(Mil.) An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; formerly much used in America and Germany.
2.
A house of squared logs. (West. & South. U. S.)





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"Blockhouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... camps all along the main road from Reddersburg to Dewetsdorp, and from there to Wepener. These stations were from six to eight miles apart, and formed a kind of fence. Through this line we had to pass, as well as the blockhouse line extending from Bloemfontein to Ladybrand, ...
— In the Shadow of Death • P. H. Kritzinger and R. D. McDonald
... to note that eventually this reasoning was brought home to the direction of operations in South Africa. After practically a year of the unsatisfactory groping referred to in the text, the conception of the blockhouse system enabled mounted troops to operate far into the vital interior of the country without returning to the railway. It must be understood that the main use of the blockhouse-line was not to stretch an impassable chevaux-de-frise ...
— On the Heels of De Wet • The Intelligence Officer
... the blockhouse a strong force of our troops, having marched out that morning from Murfreesboro, also appeared on the ground. Gen. Rousseau had learned that we were attacked, and had sent these troops to our assistance, but ...
— The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 • Leander Stillwell


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