Advertisement

View definitions for blockhouse

blockhouse

noun as in bunker

noun as in citadel

noun as in fort

noun as in fort/fortress

Discover More

Example Sentences

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

Others are posing on the porch of an officer’s house and in front of the blockhouse, which are still on the property.

The Blockhouse in Central Park is “basically part of my weed history,” said Sarah Pagan.

Back then she lived with her parents in Brooklyn, and the couple stumbled onto the Blockhouse, originally used as a wartime fort, tucked away on a trail that overlooks the park.

Few, though, wander over to see the actual Fort Kent, a wooden blockhouse constructed during the Aroostook War of 1838-9, a border dispute between England and the United States that ended without a shot being fired.

Advertisement

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement