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Emplacement

noun

Military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon.

The act of putting something in a certain place. Synonyms: locating, location, placement, position, positioning.

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"Emplacement" Quotes from Famous Books

... of his identity. Many German spies had been caught recently. Through the ruined village of Heberviller we passed to the old chateau. Here we left the car with the chauffeurs, and having been armed we started with two guides for the trenches. Every gun emplacement was inspected to see if orders had been faithfully carried out—and woe betide the man who failed. The Major's intimate and technical knowledge of every detail in machine-gun fighting, won the ...

— The Fight for the Argonne - Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man • William Benjamin West

... and quite recent shell-hole, for the Russian guns were searching out the position. He was so interested in it all that he poked his nose where he shouldn't have been, and dropped plump into the pit behind a gun-emplacement. ...

— Greenmantle • John Buchan

... inveigled into a movable cage with a falling door, he turned the instant the door fell, seized the lower edge and tried to raise it. When placed in a barred enclosure in the park, he began digging under the stone foundation of the fence, necessitating the excavation of a deep trench and the emplacement therein of large boulders to prevent his escape. Then he tried the aerial route, climbed the twelve foot iron palings, bent the tops of inch and a half bars and was nearly over when ...

— Bears I Have Met--and Others • Allen Kelly