| 单词 | blockhouse system |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblockhouse system blockhouse system n. the system of separating the theatre of war by chains of blockhouses, devised by Lord Kitchener in the later stages of the Boer War (1899–1902), and also used elsewhere.extracted from blockhousen.blockhouse system 1. transitive. To cut off from occupation or attack by a line of blockhouses under the blockhouse system. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > castle or fortified building > make into or provide with castle [verb (transitive)] > cut off by blockhouses blockhouse1901 1901 Daily Chron. 4 Sept. 5/3 Two thousand miles of railway are already ‘blockhoused’. 1901 Daily Chron. 27 Dec. 4/5 General De Wet..is doing his best to prevent the ‘block~housing’ of the north-eastern angle of the Orange River Colony. < as lemmas |
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