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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
/ ˈɡɑ˻åËŒ³ó²¹ÊŠ²õ /
noun
- military a building serving as the headquarters or a post for military police and in which military prisoners are detained
˜yÐÄvlog 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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