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Word | Casemate |
A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures / a small room in the thickness of the wall of a fortress, with embrasures from which guns or missiles can be fired., | |
Usage | ⇒ He endorsed the construction of works with high stone or brick walls, the guns arranged in multilevel tiers of internal chambers called casemates , and firing done through iron-shuttered embrasures pi |
Synonyms | bulwark, bank, barricade, barrier, battlement, fortification, glacis, abatis, barrack, bastion, contravallation, dike, fence, mound, palisade, parapet, rampart, scarp, stockade, barbette, |
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