Synonyms of blockhouse

blockhouse

noun

as in bunker

Related Words

• bunker
• dugout
• fort
• breastwork
• garrison house
• rampart
• fortress
• parapet
• earthwork
• fortification
• citadel
• redoubt
• castle
• bulwark
• stronghold
• battlement
• bastion
• alcazar
• casbah
• embattlement
• fastness
• hold

Example Sentences

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

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

These bolts anchored the blockhouse to the slab, Penders said. — 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