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Definition of Guardhouse
1. Noun. A military facility that serves as the headquarters for military police and in which military prisoners can be detained.
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Definition of Guardhouse
1. n. A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up.
Definition of Guardhouse
1. Noun. The building housing military police ¹
2. Noun. A small security station, often at the entrance to a facility or a city. ¹
3. Noun. A military prison ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Guardhouse
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guardhouse
Literary usage of Guardhouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Concise Treatise on the Law of Wills by Henry Studdy Theobald (1885)
"guardhouse v. Blackburn, 1 P. & D. 109; Goodacre v. Smith, ib. 359; Atter v.
Atkinson, ib. ... guardhouse ..."
2. Army Regulations by Confederate States of America War Dept, United States War Dept (1908)
"... each enlisted mau in barracks and each prisoner in the guardhouse will be
allowed a bed sack and 30 pounds of straw per month for bedding, ..."
3. Affray at Brownsville, Tex by United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs (1907)
"Q. Going away from the guardhouse. Here is the guardhouse, and they were ... Q.
That is, going away from the guardhouse as far as the parade ground was ..."
4. Sketches, Civil and Military, of the Island of Java and Its Immediate by John Joseph Stockdale (1812)
"River of Sama- rang.—Tides.—Fortifications.—Chinese Temple. —Warehouses and
Workshops.—guardhouse.— Government House.—Suburbs.—Garrison. ..."
5. A New Malagasy-English Dictionary by James Richardson (1885)
"A cavern in a rock ; a redoubt ; the guardhouse at the JO MILA, ê. The whole,
the total. gates of towns. (Prov.) See ZO'MA. (Prov.) [Swa. jnm/e. ..."
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