adjective
- equipped with or protected by a casemate (a fortified gun emplacement or armored enclosure in a fortification or warship)
Usage: military/naval; technical
Examples
- The casemated battery provided excellent protection for the coastal defense guns.
- The warship's casemated turrets could withstand direct artillery fire.
- Nineteenth-century forts often featured casemated gun positions.
- The casemated design allowed gunners to operate safely behind thick armor plating.