Crossword-Solution: BLOCKHOUSE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Blockhouse | n. | 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. |
| Blockhouse | n. | A house of squared logs. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “BLOCKHOUSE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ONE-storeyed timber building with loopholes | 1 answer |
| Pioneer fort | 1 answer |
| Stronghold reinforced against enemy fire | 1 answer |
| with apertures for defensive fire | 1 answer |
| A STRONGHOLD THAT IS REINFORCED FOR PROTECTION FROM ENEMY FIRE | 11 answers |
| Fort | 33 answers |
| Fortification | 56 answers |
| Emplacement | 60 answers |
| BUILDING ___ | 74 answers |
| Post | 85 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with BLOCKHOUSE (5)
Our eyes caught sight of a form in the blockhouse port, there was an instant when a candle flung its rays upon a cannon’s flank, and Tom’s rifle spat a rod of flame.
After penetrating through the brush, matted as it was with briars, for a few hundred feet, he entered an open space, that surrounded a low, green hillock, which was crowned by the decayed blockhouse in question.
And as for the blockhouse, when we shall get that rebuilt, Heaven only knows, while his majesty goes on draining the Indies for his English Armada.
Year after year he saw his harvest reaped by a sickle of flames, as he peered through the loop-holes of the blockhouse, whither he had flown in hot haste with goodwife and little ones.
Yes, he died foolishly, but the Manitou of the red-skins has compassion on his creatur's as well as the God of a Christian.” A gun at this moment was discharged from a blockhouse near the fort; and the shot, one of light weight, came whistling over the cutter's mast, an admonition to approach no nearer.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1986–2011).