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Blockhouse

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

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

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