blindage
/ˈblaɪn.dɪd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "A blindage may also be formed by covering the space between two traverses with beams, hurdles, earth, & c ."
- "In order that the reader may appreciate what a ruined blindage looked like and with what horrors its destruction was attended, the following report of Sapper Peter Oleinik, of the Kwantung Sapper Company, is published in full:"
- "Blindage covering the tops of saps could simply consist of sandbags, or a layer of fascines laid over the crest of the parapet."
- "There literally was left no space to step foot in the whole blindage: it was so choked with soldiers up to the very entrance."
- "The key unit of life here is the dugout – what the soldiers call a ‘blindage’ – an underground burrow where half a dozen men share the narrow space between the bunks with weapons, ammunition, biscuits, tea bags, and a jumble of other essentials (there is also usually a cat, not to mention the mice)."
- ". At first, I thought of staying in a blindage."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: *bʰlendʰ-
Inflected Forms
Phrases
blindage-frame