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block house
noun
- Stock Exchange. a firm that specializes in block trades.
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He and his wife and children shared a cinder-block house with a roof made of sheet metal and a dirt floor.
Ten miles from the clearing, and standing on the northern bank of the Ohio, was the block-house in charge of Captain Bushwick.
Nothing could save the lonely cabins and exposed dwellings except immediate flight to the nearest settlement or block-house.
The first intention of Boone and his party was to escort the settlers back to the block-house.
The resistance was trifling in most parts of the town, but one block-house being able to hold out against the enemy.
It was the mortuary ground of these Indians that occupied the only level spot we could get for the block-house.
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