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Built on a high plateau, it is defended by hundreds of interlaced pillboxes and concrete casemated caves, apparently connected by labyrinthine tunnels which wind in & out of the cliffsides.

From Time Magazine Archive

So they packed Iwo with 10,000 to 15,000 men, with casemated heavy coastal guns, well-sited antiaircraft guns, machine-gun nests hewn out of the rock.

From Time Magazine Archive

We have but one or two casemated guns in battery, but we have brave men there.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp

It looks very formidable in the moonlight, being a good imitation of a casemated battery.

From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by McClintock, Francis Leopold

Two such structures, with a space of 6 feet for clay, formed, on an elevated position, a very formidable casemated work.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir