Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fortified enclosure for artillery on a warship.
- noun An armored compartment for artillery on a rampart.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In fortification: A vault of stone or brickwork, usually built in the thickness of the rampart of a fortress, and pierced in front with embrasures, through which artillery may be fired.
- noun A shell-proof vault of stone or brick designed to protect troops, ammunition, etc.
- noun An embrasure.
- noun The armored bulkhead surrounding guns in iron-clad ships of war, and pierced with portholes through which the guns are run out.
- noun An erroneous form of
casement , .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Fort.) A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.
- noun (Arch.) A hollow molding, chiefly in cornices.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through
embrasures ; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops. - noun A hollow
molding , chiefly incornices .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The colonel, signing to his guests to follow, led the way to the apartment occupied jointly by himself and the major, which, although only a kind of casemate hollowed in the rock, nevertheless wore a general air of comfort.
Off on a Comet 2003
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The colonel, signing to his guests to follow, led the way to the apartment occupied jointly by himself and the major, which, although only a kind of casemate hollowed in the rock, nevertheless wore a general air of comfort.
Off on a Comet 1877
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The colonel, signing to his guests to follow, led the way to the apartment occupied jointly by himself and the major, which, although only a kind of casemate hollowed in the rock, nevertheless wore a general air of comfort.
Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space Jules Verne 1866
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The barred cell at casemate No. 11 once belonged to convicted killer William H. Howe before he was hanged Aug. 26, 1864.
Sub-Terra Cell 2006
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Assuming this was Shishak's destruction of 930 BC then that pretty much clinches the story, without even getting into the casemate wall issue or the pottery.
Apologetics Archaeology? Christopher O'Brien 2007
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A perfect citadel of a boy, with a General Chasse sitting in that bomb-proof casemate, his heart, letting blow after blow come thumping about his head, and never thinking of giving in.
Roundabout Papers 2006
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Gibraltar, they all agreed, would not, like themselves, have been compelled to have recourse to a stream of lava for their supply of heat; they, no doubt, had had abundance of fuel as well as food; and in their solid casemate, with its substantial walls, they would find ample shelter from the rigor of the cold.
Off on a Comet 2003
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And without further parley, followed by his soldiers, he retired into the casemate, leaving Captain Servadac gnawing his mustache with mingled rage and mortification.
Off on a Comet 2003
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Each casemate mounted a three-gun battery of either 100mm or 150mm, and the southern side received additional cover from a detached fort mounting three 100mm gun turrets.
Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003
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Provisions and fuel had evidently been conveyed thither in the boat from Gibraltar before the sea had frozen, and a solid casemate, hollowed in the rock, had afforded Major Oliphant and his contingent ample protection from the rigor of the winter.
Off on a Comet 2003
rolig commented on the word casemate
In Ljubljana Castle, the Kazemate – Casemates, in the plural – have been turned into a hall for art exhibitions and concerts.
August 20, 2010
knitandpurl commented on the word casemate
"The new life and the old have melted together; there is no dividing-line. In the drawing-room wall there is a queer funnel-shaped hole, with the broad end inward, like a small casemate. You ask what it is, but people have forgotten. It is something of the monks; it is a mere detail."
"Abbeys and Castles" in English Hours by Henry James, p 134 of the Oxford paperback edition
September 28, 2010
yarb commented on the word casemate
"...leveled his weapon with such force and dexterity at his head, that had the skull been made of penetrable stuff, the iron edge must have cleft his pate in twain. Casemated as he was, the instrument cut sheer even to the bone, on which it struck with such amazing violence, that sparks of real fire were produced by the collision."
— Smollett, Peregrine Pickle
January 17, 2022