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casemate
[ keys-meyt ]
noun
- an armored enclosure for guns in a warship.
- a vault or chamber, especially in a rampart, with embrasures for artillery.
casemate
/ ˈkeɪsˌmeɪt /
noun
- an armoured compartment in a ship or fortification in which guns are mounted
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Derived Forms
- ˈcaseˌmated, adjective
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Other Words From
- casemated adjective
- un·casemated adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of casemate1
C16: from French, from Italian casamatta, perhaps from Greek khasmata apertures, plural of khasma chasm
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Example Sentences
A bursting shell had started a fire among some cordite charges in the casemate.
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The bomb-proof barracks of the northern fronts mount in casemate two tiers of fourteen guns at the curtains.
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It entered the port-casemate forward, killed three men standing at the gun, and plunged into the boiler.
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At the entrance, a casemate has been burst open by a French 400 shell.
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In one casemate is a small museum of shells, grenades, trench mortars, machine guns and all kinds of respirators.
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