Definition of "guardhouse" []

• A building that accommodates a military guard. (noun)
• A jail for the detention of military personnel guilty of minor offenses or awaiting court-martial. (noun)

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• "This very large home had a guardhouse, and atop the guardhouse was a tee."
• "But in the army of my day, any soldier (or indeed discomfited general) who spent too much time twisting about the language of regulations in his own favor was called a guardhouse lawyer."
• "The guardhouse was the little smoking-room where Tom and Frenchy had sat upon the sill and talked and Frenchy had given him the iron button."