(n.) An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany.
(n.) A house of squared logs.
Example Sentences:
(1) A bad habit this: so we sent off two men to lie by each blockhouse, and fire a few shots after dark.
Wooden
Definition:
(a.) Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.
(1) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
(2) It’s a bright, simple space with wooden tables and high stalls and offers tastings and beer-making workshops.
(3) A model system of exfoliated normal human cervicovaginal squamous cells, exfoliated rodent tumor cells, and acellular, viscous, mucuslike material was used to investigate cell deposition on smear preparations made with three different instruments: plastic spatulas, wooden spatulas, and brush-tipped collectors.
(4) I’m staying in a mobile home called a njalla , designed by artist and architect Joar Nango, which sits on wooden skis that allow you to drag it to a spot of your choosing.
(5) 11.21pm GMT Tweets Jeremiah Tittle (@WWWJT) @LengelDavid @Paolo_Bandini @HunterFelt @GdnUSsports remove the wooden beam from your own eye before you remove the speck from the umpires'.
(6) Up to 100 children may have died in the weekend’s catastrophic shipwreck in the Mediterranean, a relief agency has said as prosecutors in Sicily arrested the alleged commander of the wooden fishing vessel and a member of his crew.
(7) On buccal tooth surfaces, the cleaning effect of a multitufted nylon brush was superior to that of a wooden toothpick or unwaxed dental floss.
(8) Wooden construction results in low cost and minimizes radiation scatter problems associated with higher density materials.
(9) The teak-coloured wooden garages will be open for business from Monday for drive-in customers in a country where prostitution has been legal since 1942 on the outskirts of the Swiss city.
(10) When Philip Roth accepted the biennial International Booker prize honouring some 60 years of his fiction, from Goodbye, Columbus to Nemesis , he sat at a wooden table in the studio adjoining his airy Connecticut retreat looking as much like a retired priest, or judge, as the Grand Old Man of American letters, pushing 79.
(11) Tourists take the children out, to the zoo or downtown,” said the head of one orphanage of 16 children, a small wooden house built on stilts in flooded fields.
(12) They are furnished with raised wooden floors, good beds, small kitchens and even wood-burning stoves; six have front decks.
(13) The patient acquired this fungus by cutting his chin on a wooden floor.
(14) Lisa and Brian converted the old wooden schoolhouse six years ago and the design is bright and eclectic, think retro school desks, a funky red kitchen, a clear geodesic dome in the garden for stargazing and chill-out time and a giant chess set on the lawn.
(15) However, this method was much less efficient (31% survival of micro-organisms) on site 3 (wooden surface) than methods 2 (7% survival) and 3 (1% survival).
(16) A wooden block is glued to the sound claw and parenteral antibiotics are administered for four to six days.
(17) Kondoli was pushing a makeshift wooden cart with the family's bedding and pots and pans, but it looked as if it was about to fall apart.
(18) Corrective measures: Chagas: Since brick houses have replaced the wooden ones for several years, new infections are unlikely.
(19) Peterson is accused of using a wooden switch to spank his 4-year-old son.
(20) The rustic rooms have clay tiles and wooden furniture, and the walls are brightened up with local fabrics.