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Blockhouse
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.
2. A house of squared logs. [West. & South. U. S.]
Meaning of Blockhouses from wikipedia
- 18th-century
French blocus (blockade).
Blockhouses existed in
ancient Greece, for
example the one near Mycenae.
Early blockhouses were
designed solely to protect...
- The
Blockhouse is a 1973
drama film
directed by
Clive Rees and
starring Peter Sellers and
Charles Aznavour. It is
based on the 1955
novel Le Blockhaus...
- A
blockhouse is a small,
isolated fort in the form of a
single building.
Blockhouse or
block house may also
refer to:
Blockhouse (Central Park), fort in...
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formed from the
merger of
Blockhouse Bay (founded 1948) and
Green Bay-Titirangi
United (founded 1973) in 1998.
Blockhouse Bay had been a
prominent Auckland...
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three blockhouses built by
locals to
protect the area from
American raids.
Standing by the St.
Andrews waterfront, the St.
Andrews Blockhouse is Canada's...
- Gore
Brown ordered the
construction of a
series of
blockhouses as a
defence for the town. The
Blockhouse was
constructed strategically in Onehunga's Green...
- Fort
Blockhouse is a
former military establishment in Gosport, Hampshire, England, and the
final version of a
complicated site. At its
greatest extent...
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Blockhouse, and a ring of six
other blockhouses -- to
guard the
approaches to
Toronto in case
there was
another rebellion. The
Sherbourne Blockhouse was...
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Blockhouse Bay is a
residential suburb in the
south west of Auckland, in New Zealand's
North Island. It is
sited on the
northern coast of the
Manukau Harbour...
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Aliwal North Blockhouses (2)
Broederstroom Blockhouse Burgersdorp Blockhouse Dewetsville Blockhouse Fort Harlech,
Krugersdorp Hekpoort Blockhouse Hopetown...
