Definition of Blockhouses

1. Noun. (plural of blockhouse) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Blockhouses

1. blockhouse [n] - See also: blockhouse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blockhouses

blocker
blocker bet
blockers
blockfront
blockfronts
blockhead
blockheaded
blockheadedly
blockheadedness
blockheadism
blockheadisms
blockheads
blockhole
blockholes
blockhouse
blockhouses
blockier
blockiest
blockiness
blocking
blocking activity
blocking agent
blocking and tackling
blocking antibody
blocking course
blocking courses
blocking patent
blocking patents
blockings
blockish

Literary usage of Blockhouses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Blockhouses are familiar to the public from the part they played in the South African ... Stone blockhouses have long been used in the Balkans for frontier ..."

2. A Text-book on Field Fortification by Gustave Joseph Fiebeger (1913)
"Blockhouses are used as separate works for the defense of mountain ... Blockhouses may be defended wholly by infantry, or by infantry with machine guns. ..."

3. Original Letters, Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1827)
"William Earl of Southampton to Lord Cromwell concerning Blockhouses to be made at ... Blockhouses ..."

4. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"... though the Dutch are gone, ordered our frigates to be brought to a line between the two blockhouses; which I took then to be a ridiculous thing. ..."

5. Three Years' War by Christiaan Rudolf De Wet (1902)
"CHAPTER XXXI Blockhouses and Night Attacks WHILE the great events recorded at the end of my last chapter were in progress, I paid a visit to the Harrismith ..."

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