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gun emplacement

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Noun1.gun emplacement - an emplacement for a gun
emplacement - military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon
nest - a kind of gun emplacement; "a machine-gun nest"; "a nest of snipers"
pillbox - a small enclosed gun emplacement (usually of fortified concrete)


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It's probably too large to be a gun emplacement, says Everett.
Modern times have brought different kinds of threats--the site was used as gun emplacement during Cambodia's prolonged civil war and the surrounding area extensively landmined.
At night, the Japanese, coming out of tunnels and hidden gun emplacements that perforated the island, tried to breach the American lines.
 
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