blockhouse
noun
a fortified structure with ports or loopholes through which defenders may direct gunfire.
blockhouses
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pluralof blockhouse.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
In some forts instead of blockhouses, the angles of the fort were furnished with bastions.
From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Ben Casseday
