Blockhouse

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Blockhouse \Block"house`\, n. [Block + house: cf. G. blockhaus.]
     1. (Mil.) An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs
        for military defense, having its sides loopholed for
        musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the
        lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an
        angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the


        defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; --
        formerly much used in America and Germany.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A house of squared logs. [West. & South. U. S.]
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  blockhouse
       n : a stronghold that is reinforced for protection from enemy
           fire; with apertures for defensive fire

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "blockhouse":
     acropolis, bastion, beachhead, box, bridgehead, bungalow, bunker,
     cabin, castle, chalet, citadel, cot, cote, cottage, donjon,
     fasthold, fastness, fort, fortress, garrison, garrison house, hold,
     keep, lodge, log cabin, love nest, martello, martello tower, mote,
     motte, peel, peel tower, pied-a-terre, pillbox, post, rath,
     safehold, snuggery, strong point, stronghold, tower,
     tower of strength, ward