blockhouse
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Pte Malcolm, a stretcher bearer, was found when unidentified remains were recovered from a shell hole outside a German blockhouse in Fusilier Wood, near Klein-Zillebeke, Belgium.
From BBC ● May 10, 2023
Others are posing on the porch of an officer’s house and in front of the blockhouse, which are still on the property.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2023
Behind the thick walls were cases of ammunition, Behind the blockhouse the gun crew had tunneled into the side of the hill and installed living quarters.
From Fox News ● Jun. 3, 2019
By one p.m. they were strapped into their couches, familiar from hours spent in vacuum-chamber tests in Houston, and Slayton left for the blockhouse, where he would monitor the test.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2019
The blockhouse was thirty yards away from the pad, on the creek bank, its dimensions determined by the lumber at hand.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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It’s a sure sign that greed, not fear, is the current phase of the arc of Mr. McWilliams’s pendulum that nobody can be sure whether these digital blockhouses will ever generate a dollar of profit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Beyond the beach rise the bluffs where the Germans built their first line of defenses with trenches and blockhouses.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2019
We passed dilapidated blockhouses, children taking bucket baths, and old women spreading rice over tattered tarpaulins to dry.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 12, 2015
Climb any hill and you may well find pillboxes, bunkers, blockhouses; stroll through any freshly plowed field and you might just spot shrapnel, cartridges and bullets atop the furrows.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2014
They were screened by rocks, and from their position they could see the blockhouses and the tops of the huts, and keep the west and south quarters of the fort under fairly strict observation.
From Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Herbert Strang