Guardhouse

3 definitions found

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

  Guardhouse \Guard"house`\, n. (Mil.)
     A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which
     soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  guardhouse
       n : a military facility that serves as the headquarters for
           military police and in which military prisoners can be
           detained

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

  45 Moby Thesaurus words for "guardhouse":
     POW camp, bastille, black hole, borstal, borstal institution,
     bridewell, brig, cell, concentration camp, condemned cell,
     death cell, death house, death row, detention camp, federal prison,
     forced-labor camp, gaol, house of correction, house of detention,
     industrial school, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, keep,
     labor camp, lockup, maximum-security prison,
     minimum-security prison, oubliette, pen, penal colony,
     penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, prison,
     prison camp, prisonhouse, reform school, reformatory,
     sponging house, state prison, stockade, the hole, tollbooth,
     training school