Thesaurus results for BLOCKHOUSE

blockhouse

noun

as in bunker

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Recent Examples of blockhouse The kitchen had two notable features—a big cast-iron woodstove on which everything was cooked, and a dishwasher that stood up like a blockhouse, designed to receive trays two feet by two with wire-mesh bottoms and sides four inches high. —

John McPhee, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026 Attempts by newsmen to get word from the Complex 34 blockhouse proved fruitless as pad personnel declined to supply information or page public information officials. —

Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2026 Learn More Military History Finally, make a stop at the Oconee Military Museum to honor veterans from the area and the Oconee Station State Historic Site, a stone blockhouse that as used as an outpost by the South Carolina State Militia from about 1792 to 1799. —

Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 1 Aug. 2025 That same Christmas in Columbia, a settlement of four blockhouses and 50 settlers founded a month earlier at what is now Columbia-Tusculum, pioneers held a feast. —

Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2024 One of the original blockhouses overlooks the canal, while the old town is filled with art galleries and craft stories. —

Joe Yogerst, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024 Nearby, several of his men sat in the shade of a small blockhouse, holding automatic weapons. —

Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023 This makeshift blockhouse marks where technicians launched Bumper 8 on July 24, 1950 — America's first rocket from the Cape. —

Rick Neale, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023 Chavez was responsible for the craft’s electrical monitor console, which was located in the blockhouse, a concrete building used to observe the proceedings. —

IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2019

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There’s also the Second World War air-raid shelter, 10-Z bunker, and the Ossuary at the church of St James, which is the second largest in Europe after Paris’ Catacombs and houses the remains of 50,000 people.

— Jaymi McCann, TheWeek, 16 June 2026
Tel Aviv — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu huddled with his security cabinet in a bunker late Sunday night, ready for the potential of Iranian ballistic missiles, when the phone rang.

— Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 15 June 2026