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guardhouse
[ gahrd-hous ]
noun
- a building used for housing military personnel on guard duty.
- a building used for the temporary detention of military prisoners.
guardhouse
/ ˈɡɑːˌʊ /
noun
- military a building serving as the headquarters or a post for military police and in which military prisoners are detained
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of guardhouse1
Example Sentences
The theft of the gun while he was out of the guardhouse will be another black mark.
Whistling Cay has a guardhouse that colonial-era officials used to scan waters for slaves escaping from St. John to the nearby island of Tortola.
It was built in 1877 in the form of a panopticon, giving a central guardhouse a clear view to all corners of the "wheel".
On a Friday afternoon in late March, dozens of workers were lining up at the guardhouse to start their shifts building batteries for vehicles like the Ford F-150 Lightning and the Volkswagen ID.4.
If you got caught, you’d end up having to spend a few days in the guardhouse.
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