casemate

[ keys-meyt ]

noun

an armored enclosure for guns in a warship.
a vault or chamber, especially in a rampart, with embrasures for artillery.

Origin of casemate

1565–75; <Middle French <Old Italian casamatta, alteration (by folk etymology) of Greek chásmata embrasures, literally, openings, plural of chásmachasm

Other words from casemate

casemated, adjective
un·case·mat·ed, adjective

Words Nearby casemate

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How to use casemate in a sentence

A bursting shell had started a fire among some cordite charges in the casemate.
The Heroic Record of the British Navy | Archibald Hurd
The bomb-proof barracks of the northern fronts mount in casemate two tiers of fourteen guns at the curtains.
The Life of Gordon, Volume I | Demetrius Charles Boulger
It entered the port-casemate forward, killed three men standing at the gun, and plunged into the boiler.
The Naval History of the United States | Willis J. Abbot.
At the entrance, a casemate has been burst open by a French 400 shell.
Verdun Argonne-Metz 1914-1918 | Anonymous
In one casemate is a small museum of shells, grenades, trench mortars, machine guns and all kinds of respirators.
Verdun Argonne-Metz 1914-1918 | Anonymous

British Dictionary definitions for casemate

casemate

/ (ˈkeɪsˌmeɪt) /

noun

an armoured compartment in a ship or fortification in which guns are mounted

Origin of casemate

C16: from French, from Italian casamatta, perhaps from Greek khasmata apertures, plural of khasma chasm

Derived forms of casemate

casemated, adjective

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