Military. a fortified structure with ports or loopholes through which defenders may direct gunfire.
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Also called garrison house.(formerly) a building, usually of hewn timber and with a projecting upper story, having loopholes for musketry.
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a house built of squared logs.
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Rocketry.a structure near a launching site for rockets, generally made of heavily reinforced concrete, for housing and protecting personnel, electronic controls, and auxiliary apparatus before and during launching operations.
Origin: 1505–15; < Middle Dutchblochuus, equivalent to blocblock + huushouse
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.