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pillbox

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈpɪl bɒks/Part of speech nounSorted billopxStarts with PEnds with X0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a small enclosed gun emplacement (usually of fortified concrete)

Word origin

From pill + box.

Used in a sentence

  • There is a list of possessions auctioned after her death – her pillboxes and playing cards, two silver-mounted ivory lemon-squeezers.
  • It was reported that the Germans had established trench works in front of the pillboxes. The enemy was said to have taken refuge from American fire in the pillboxes, later emerging to take up the trench positions.
  • Beneath the wide steppe sky women in white kerchiefs were digging trenches and building small pillboxes, looking up now and again in case 'those vermin' were on the wing.

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