casemated
- a word derived from casemate.
Example Sentences
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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
Its neat embrasures, its finished parapets, its casemated stories show all the skill of modern science.
From Barchester Towers by Trollope, Anthony
The highest part of the isle is Verne Hill, four hundred and ninety-five feet high, where there is a strong fort with casemated barracks that can accommodate three thousand men.
From England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Cook, Joel
It was a casemated brick structure, pentagonal in form, carrying in barbette over the casemates twenty-seven cannon of and above the size of thirty-two pounders, besides eleven twenty-four pounders.
From Admiral Farragut by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
