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
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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
The watchman, an old man, came forth from a casemate hewn out of the rock, and opened the lock of the drawbridge with a large curiously wrought key.
From The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. by Wilhelm Hauff
Even as the midshipman spoke there came a peculiar screech that sounded almost above the armoured roof of the casemate.
From The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The central fort or citadel is flanked by a double line of works with three tiers of casemate batteries.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
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