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case⋅mate

  [keys-meyt]
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–noun
1. an armored enclosure for guns in a warship.
2. a vault or chamber, esp. in a rampart, with embrasures for artillery.
Origin:
1565–75; < MF < OIt casamatta, alter. (by folk etymology) of Gk chásmata embrasures, lit., openings, pl. of chásma chasm

Related forms:
casemated, adjective
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case·mate   (kās'māt')   
n.  

  1. A fortified enclosure for artillery on a warship.

  2. An armored compartment for artillery on a rampart.


[French, from Italian casamatta : perhaps casa, house (from Latin casa) + matto, mad, crazy (from Latin mattus, drunk, past participle of madēre, to be drunk).]
case'mat'ed adj.
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