Crossword clues for guardhouse
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Guardhouse \Guard"house`\, n. (Mil.) A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The building housing military police 2 A small security station, often at the entrance to a facility or a city. 3 A military prison
WordNet
n. a military facility that serves as the headquarters for military police and in which military prisoners can be detained
Wikipedia
A guardhouse (also known as a watch house, guard building, guard booth, guard shack, security booth, security building, or sentry building) is a building used to house personnel and security equipment. Guardhouses have historically been dormitories for sentries or guards, and places where sentries not posted to sentry posts wait "on call", but are more recently manned by a contracted security company. Some guardhouses also function as jails.
Usage examples of "guardhouse".
Its banks were steep and covered with thorn thickets, but at least we were safe down there and I knew the ravine would take us to the Cao Bang-Tien-pao road where it ran under a small bridge with the guardhouse, our first objective.
The two soldiers on duty, country boys from the look of them, were dozing in the guardhouse when she rapped on the window.
And so, while some in the rear ranks still voiced a few reservations, Longarm was soon leading the ragged column of gray-clad rurales across the parade of Fort Bliss toward the guardhouse.
He was moved from one PW camp to the next and finally found peace in an English camp for antifascist prisoners, for along with the usual guardhouse peccadilloes the reason for his demotion was noted in his paybook.
I resolved to write to the French officer who had treated me so well at the guardhouse.
The Gardac left his post and went into the guardhouse, returning with a helmetless yeoman who scratched a long scab on his face.
I had only gone a few yards when I was arrested by a patrol, the officer of which told me that, as I had no lantern and as eight o'clock had struck, his duty was to take me to the guardhouse.
When we reached the guardhouse, the officer of the patrol introduced me to his captain, a tall, fine-looking young man who received me in the most cheerful manner.
He went up the steps into the guardhouse, past breastplated guards on either side of the door.
Instead, the guardhouses and the Carcel Modelo had been scraped for soldiers, most often bad ones, who could still be counted on to face down unarmed, unwarned people for a good price.
Communities are ruined by the enormous outlays to which they are exposed: The payment of the deputies to the seneschal's court, the establishment of the burgess guards, guardhouses for this militia, and the purchase of arms, uniforms, and outlays in forming communes and permanent councils.
There was but a single bridge guard at nightalthough there was a large bell atop the guardhouse with which he could summon aidand the iron gate was locked.
A constant stream of letters and CARE packages, sent by other female admirers, was brightening up his guardhouse stay.
A thin figure led a donkey and cart off the side road a half-kay to the northwest and onto the highway toward the guardhouse.
There had once been a fence and guard post at the North Entrance to Edwards AFB, but the guardhouse was boarded up, and the fence had been knocked down by tumbleweeds piling against it.