Definitions for casemate

casemate case·mate

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IPA: /ˈkeɪsˌmeɪt/

Casemate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 227 anagrams from letters in casemate (aaceemst).

Definitions for casemate

noun

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

Origin of casemate

1565-75; Middle French Old Italian casamatta, alteration (by folk etymology) of Greek chásmata embrasures, literally, openings, plural of chásma chasm

Examples for casemate

Two days afterwards he found himself in a casemate of the fort of Bicetre.

It mounts fifteen guns on the top, and fifteen guns in casemate.

More of them were behind the grilled peepholes of the casemate.

It was caused by the hasty entrance of a man into the casemate.

The parapet is, of course, damaged, but the casemate embrasures are uninjured.

He had felt hungry in the casemate, and the pangs of hunger had never since left him.

At the entrance, a casemate has been burst open by a French 400 shell.

To them the nightly flight to the casemate is no longer a wild adventure.

A casemate of iron plates has been provided for the gunners.

It was with some emotion that I reached the casemate in which Mr. Davis was confined.

Word Value for casemate
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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