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- noun Plural form of
casemate .
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Examples
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Confederates have mounted six rifled guns in casemates on Fort Sumter, bearing on the channel, and they have completed another ironclad in the harbour.
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The old woman took us through the "casemates" -- dark stone galleries with little narrow slits for windows or to fire through; they used to run all around the house, connected by a subterranean passage, but they are now, like all the rest, half in ruins.
Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington
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Twenty-six vaulted rooms also called casemates are enclosed by outer walls that average 4 1/2 feet thick.
Archive 2008-06-01 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Twenty-six vaulted rooms also called casemates are enclosed by outer walls that average 4 1/2 feet thick.
Fort Macon de Brantigny........................ 2008
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The secondary armament of 6-inch or 7. 5-inch guns is mounted in "casemates," or armoured chambers, so disposed that two of them can also fire straight ahead, and the other two straight astern.
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Had they been positioned in defensive deployments behind the casemates and artillery positions of the Stalin Line, which ran unbroken from the Baltic to the Black Sea, this rout would not have happened.
Eric Margolis: Time to Face the Truth About World War II 2009
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Stalin ordered all 1,000-plus defensive casemates of the formidable Stalin Line defending the USSR's western border destroyed to emphasize the offensive mission of the Red Army.
Eric Margolis: Time to Face the Truth About World War II 2009
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He must descend with his heart full of charity, and severity at the same time, as a brother and as a judge, to those impenetrable casemates where crawl, pell-mell, those who bleed and those who deal the blow, those who weep and those who curse, those who fast and those who devour, those who endure evil and those who inflict it.
Les Miserables 2008
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We went up to the citadel, which crowns the hill, and is composed of an agglomeration of granite walls, fosses, and casemates, mounds, ditches, barracks, and water-tanks.
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Remembering the usages of merry England, they clubbed together, and swore they would have four meals of meat a day, wax-candles in the casemates, and their porter.
Burlesques 2006
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