casemate

/keys-meyt/US // ˈkeɪsˌmeɪt //UK // (ˈkeɪsˌmeɪt) //

案头,案板,案板房,案头堡

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : an armored enclosure for guns in a warship.
- : a vault or chamber, especially in a rampart, with embrasures for artillery.

A bursting shell had started a fire among some cordite charges in the casemate.
The bomb-proof barracks of the northern fronts mount in casemate two tiers of fourteen guns at the curtains.
It entered the port-casemate forward, killed three men standing at the gun, and plunged into the boiler.
At the entrance, a casemate has been burst open by a French 400 shell.
In one casemate is a small museum of shells, grenades, trench mortars, machine guns and all kinds of respirators.