casemate
Americannoun
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an armored enclosure for guns in a warship.
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a vault or chamber, especially in a rampart, with embrasures for artillery.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of casemate
1565–75; < Middle French < Old Italian casamatta, alteration (by folk etymology) of Greek chásmata embrasures, literally, openings, plural of chásma chasm
Example Sentences
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The three large sections of the Georgia's armored casemate, however, proved too heavy to raise without cutting them down into smaller pieces.
From US News ● Aug. 16, 2015
In the middle was a trapezoid- shaped casemate with slats on each side for cannons.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
It is even probable that the moral casemate to which they fled favoured the preservation of their old ways, that of poetising included.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
Again a moderate quantity of earth over a casemate increases the explosive effect of a shell by “tamping” it, that is by preventing the force of the explosion from being wasted in the open air.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
But the casemate guns were kept in full play, and the fight became a very severe one.
From Elsie at Viamede by Finley, Martha
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