casemate – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
casemate
n.
armored turret for guns; protective vault used as a barracks or for storing weapons; hollow molding to form a cornice (Architecture)
Casemate
A
casemate, sometimes erroneously rendered
casement, is a fortified gun emplacement or armored structure from which guns are fired. Originally, the term referred to a vaulted chamber in a
fortress. In
armoured fighting vehicles that do not have a turret for the main gun, the structure that accommodates the gun is termed the casemate.
casemate
nf.
casemate, blockhouse
Casemate
(n.)
A hollow molding, chiefly in cornices.
(n.)
A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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casemate
n.
گڑھ گج , رند , ريني
