casemate
noun
an armored enclosure for guns in a warship.
casemated
-
a word derived from
casemate.
Example Sentences
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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
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
Memorials of Hampden," this room is "so contrived, by being surrounded by thick stone walls, and casemated, that no sound from within can be heard.
From Strange Pages from Family Papers by T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer
Fort Jackson, on the southern bank of the bend, was a pentagonal casemated work, built of brick.
From The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
Its neat embrasures, its finished parapets, its casemated stories, show all the skill of modern science.
From Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
