Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A building that accommodates a military guard.
- noun A jail for the detention of military personnel guilty of minor offenses or awaiting court-martial.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A building in which a military guard is stationed for the care of prisoners confined in it and for the relief of sentries.
- noun A place for the temporary detention of civil prisoners under guard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mil.) A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The building housing
military police - noun A small
security station, often at the entrance to a facility or a city. - noun A military
prison
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a military facility that serves as the headquarters for military police and in which military prisoners can be detained
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Examples
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This very large home had a guardhouse, and atop the guardhouse was a tee.
Archive 2009-04-01 Michael Turton 2009
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This very large home had a guardhouse, and atop the guardhouse was a tee.
Riding up to Hsinshe Michael Turton 2009
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But in the army of my day, any soldier (or indeed discomfited general) who spent too much time twisting about the language of regulations in his own favor was called a guardhouse lawyer.
Mark Twain's Reputation Cardwell, Guy 1996
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The guardhouse was the little smoking-room where Tom and Frenchy had sat upon the sill and talked and Frenchy had given him the iron button.
Tom Slade on a Transport Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913
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But why do you say she was built like that particular kind of guardhouse, as opposed to, say, the cast concrete block East German/Polish border guardhouse?
Yvonne de Carlo/Peggy Yvonne Middleton, RIP « raincoaster 2007
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For his misconduct Peter Slade was confined in the "guardhouse" for three days.
The Rover Boys on the Farm or Last Days at Putnam Hall Edward Stratemeyer 1896
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Tad Sobber was impudent, and as a consequence was marched off to a storeroom which was occasionally used as a "guardhouse" by the teachers and Captain Putnam.
The Rover Boys on the Farm or Last Days at Putnam Hall Edward Stratemeyer 1896
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I contemplated of forging a letter from the management to complain about the noise pollution he’s causing (it’s been two weeks) but resorted to calling the guardhouse and asked the guards to tell him instead.
natinski Diary Entry natinski 2004
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Mr. Rasheed, slowed, waved at the attendant stationed in the guardhouse.
Father's day Andrew Clarke 2011
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The irony was that there was a big poster in the US border guardhouse.
Author Peter Watts Beaten & Arrested at US/Canada Border 2009
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