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Casemate - Definition and Overview

A Casemate is a heavy duty structure originally a valuted chamber in a fortress. Today the military use the term for a fortified gun emplacment. In civilian use a casemate may be a tunnel cut into a rock face with armoured doors, used for storing volatile goods.

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