What is "emplacements"

Usage examples of "emplacements".

His father had Hplaced him in charge of ferrying the cannon ashore and building the stone emplacements to house them, overlooking the narrow entrance to the lagoon.

Ned Tyler, and pointed across the water to where a puff of white gunsmoke still hung over one of the emplacements that guarded the entrance.

Then Sir Francis strode along the gun emplacements in the cliff and gave a curt set of orders to the men who crouched over the culver ins with the burning slow-match.

All the rest of that morning the crew of the Gull behaved like that of any other ship preparing for sea, and though Daniel and his gun crews with cannon loaded and aimed, and with slow-match burning, watched the Gull from their hidden emplacements dug into the sandy soil along the edge of the forest, she gave them no hint of treachery.

He went down the line of gun emplacements, speaking softly to the men on watch behind the culver ins He checked once more the laying of each, making sure that they were truly aimed at the dark shape of the Gull, as she lay in a spangle of star reflections on the surface of the still, dark lagoon.

They ran down the line of emplacements, and in each found sweetly reeking oaken kegs and inert bodies.

Then with his naked eye he saw strange soldiers in green uniform overrunning the gun emplacements at the foot of the cliffs, their swords and the steel heads of their pikes flashing in the sunlight as they slaughtered the gunners, and flung their bodies over the parapets into the sea below.

Through the trees he could see the piled earth of the gun emplacements and the drifting bank of gunsmoke.

Not only the smartly uniformed guards along the hall attested to this, but also the hidden traps, emplacements, and other nastiness that only his trained eye could make out signified rank and importance.

We passed electrified barbed wire emplacements and tall lookout towers snouted with large caliber machine guns and squat grenade launchers.

It contained only a single folder and when she opened that, the photos of gun emplacements and beach defenses alone told her that she had found what she had come for.

Visualize and will into being bomb-proof emplacements on the same lines as we have.

He watched them take up positions at intersections, make crude emplacements, mount guard at various points.