What is "loopholed"

Usage examples of "loopholed".

The central gatehouse was flanked by two defensive towers, both of them loopholed to sweep the exterior of the gatehouse with arquebus and light artillery fire.

From that position it could slaughter any enemy who tried to outflank the loopholed doors by crossing the paved and balustraded terrace.

Two men crewed the grasshopper gun in its cushioned embrasure, while the other four Dragoons took it in turns to fire through the two loopholed doors.

They were still staring as Calvet's men came to the loopholed doors and thrust their muskets through.

In the centre was Gemioncourt farm which should have been a fortress to hold up the French, but was now empty because the Belgian guns and infantry had fled straight past the farm, thus yielding its strong walls and loopholed barns to the enemy.

They came over the ridge top and, with their colours hoisted high behind their centre companies, swept down onto the French who still milled ineffectually about La Haye Sainte's loopholed walls.

This was the only river crossing they had garrisoned, and they had loopholed the houses, barricaded the alleys, and Leroy knew this would be grim work.

It was too well barricaded, too thickly loopholed, and he knew that the muskets of Gamarra Mayor's defenders could do far more damage than the six field guns on the far side of the river.

The doors were barricaded, the shutters closed upon the windows and loopholed, and provisions were brought in from the outhouses.

The houses were loopholed and parapeted and the air was filled with the fumes of arsenic.