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say it: BLAHK-hows
blockhouse is a noun meaning "a stronghold that is reinforced for protection from enemy fire; with apertures for defensive fire". It is pronounced /ˈblɑkˌhaʊs/ — BLAHK-hows. It carries one recorded sense.
a stronghold that is reinforced for protection from enemy fire; with apertures for defensive fire
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for blockhouse come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.