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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

On the other side of the draw was a similar position and further inland above the exit from the beach was another concrete blockhouse with its 88-gun pointing down the approach.

From Fox News ● Jun. 3, 2019

After we got Jake, Mr. Dubonnet, and the machinists safe in the blockhouse or hiding behind their cars, Auk XIV erupted from the pad, spinning once around the rod before hurtling into the sky.

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

The sound of the conflict, Jack knew, would be taken by Barney as the signal to begin work outside the blockhouses.

From Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Herbert Strang




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