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Definition of Blockhouses
1. blockhouse [n] - See also: blockhouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blockhouses
Literary usage of Blockhouses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"blockhouses are familiar to the public from the part they played in the South
African ... Stone blockhouses have long been used in the Balkans for frontier ..."
2. A Text-book on Field Fortification by Gustave Joseph Fiebeger (1913)
"blockhouses are used as separate works for the defense of mountain ... blockhouses
may be defended wholly by infantry, or by infantry with machine guns. ..."
3. Original Letters, Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1827)
"William Earl of Southampton to Lord Cromwell concerning blockhouses to be made at
... blockhouses ..."
4. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"... though the Dutch are gone, ordered our frigates to be brought to a line between
the two blockhouses; which I took then to be a ridiculous thing. ..."
5. Three Years' War by Christiaan Rudolf De Wet (1902)
"CHAPTER XXXI blockhouses and Night Attacks WHILE the great events recorded at
the end of my last chapter were in progress, I paid a visit to the Harrismith ..."
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