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blockhouse

[blok-haus] / ˈblɒkˌhaʊs /
NOUN
bunker
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Pte Malcolm, a stretcher bearer, was found when unidentified remains were recovered from a shell hole outside a German blockhouse in Fusilier Wood, near Klein-Zillebeke, Belgium.

From BBC ● May 10, 2023

Others are posing on the porch of an officer’s house and in front of the blockhouse, which are still on the property.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2023

She and Bhutto bought a one-bedroom unit at City View Condos, a brick blockhouse in the tumbledown Barry Farm area of Southeast D.C.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2019

This blockhouse was about 15 feet square with one opening through which was poked the snout of an 88-mm. gun.

From Fox News ● Jun. 3, 2019

I climbed out of the blockhouse and caught sight of the wisp of its contrail as it fell downrange.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

It’s a sure sign that greed, not fear, is the current phase of the arc of Mr. McWilliams’s pendulum that nobody can be sure whether these digital blockhouses will ever generate a dollar of profit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

Beyond the beach rise the bluffs where the Germans built their first line of defenses with trenches and blockhouses.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2019

We passed dilapidated blockhouses, children taking bucket baths, and old women spreading rice over tattered tarpaulins to dry.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 12, 2015

Climb any hill and you may well find pillboxes, bunkers, blockhouses; stroll through any freshly plowed field and you might just spot shrapnel, cartridges and bullets atop the furrows.

From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2014

They advanced rather more than a mile and reached the south-western edge of Houthulst Forest, after having captured numerous strongly fortified farms and blockhouses.

From Ypres and the Battles of Ypres by Unknown




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