Crossword clues for pillbox
pillbox
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A small box in which pills are kept. 2 A flat, concrete gun emplacement.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Pillboxes are concrete dug-in guard posts, normally equipped with loopholes through which to fire weapons. The originally jocular name arose from their perceived similarity to the cylindrical and hexagonal boxes in which medical pills were once sold. They are in effect a trench firing step hardened to protect against small-arms fire and grenades and raised to improve the field of fire.
Usage examples of "pillbox".
Scout dogs would be trained to scout in front of the infantry in advances and on patrols, guard prisoners, provide night security in foxholes and outposts, and enter caves and pillboxes to determine whether enemy was present.
The primary value of our dogs lay in scouting, in exploring caves and pillboxes, or as sentries.
When the last car in the train rattled by carrying the second tarp-covered pillbox, Luis gave the same signal.
Along the road, since they had left Vaduz, they had passed guard houses and on two occasions concrete pillboxes, heavy automatic weapons projecting from their slots, but they had been stopped only once, and then, briefly.
Wednesday morning, after William gets out of bed and asks where the Valium is and after I stumble out of bed to retrieve it from my purse and after he reminds me that the family has reservations at Spago at eight and after I hear the wheels on the Mercedes screech out of the driveway and after Susan tells me that she is going to Westwood with Alana and Blair after school and will meet us at Spago and after I fall back asleep and dream of rats drowning, crawling desperately over each other in a steaming, bubbling jacuzzi, and dozens of poolboys, nude, standing over the jacuzzi, laughing, pointing at the drowning rats, their heads nodding in unison to the beat of the music coming from portable stereos they hold in golden arms, I wake up and walk downstairs and take a Tab out of the refrigerator and find twenty milligrams of Valium in a pillbox in another purse in the alcove by the refrigerator and take ten milligrams.
KM brandished the pillbox, and 2 unsubtly implied I had imagined the theft.
It was a slender young man, dressed in dungarees and topped off with earpads and an incongruous, pillbox cap, bright with gold braid and Insignia.
Now there were white-robed waiters with red sashes and little red pillbox fezes upon their heads.
When this war is over -- one way or another, it will be over some day -- well, then, when the war is over, the pillboxes will still be here.
She reached into her purse and pulled out what I knew was her Valium pillbox, then downed one of the green pills with her newly filled coffee cup of sherry.
Felix and Kitty climb up on the concrete roof of the pillbox and begin doing acrobatic exercises.
This know-how included such items as the practice and accomplishment of stalking a sentry, scouting in the advanced guard, patrolling for information in enemy territory, street fighting, and knocking out pillboxes on the forward and rear slopes of hills.
Normally, old Curly the guard would be dozing in his chair at this time of the morning, propped up against the pillbox corner, a blackened calabash pipe [22] resting on his ample front.
Perhaps it is that McCarthy has labelled the cough mixture as the eye-wash, or sent an empty pillbox with an exhortation to take one every four hours.
Jan Cheroot dashed into the yard, panting from his run, carrying the Lee-Enfield rifle at high port across his chest, sweat streaking down from under his brimless pillbox infantry cap and his face crumpling with dismay as he saw Zouga's bloody torn face.