Meaning

(military, historical) A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework..

Definitions by Sense

1. (military, historical) A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.
2. (military) A deep dugout, often equipped with bunks and other fittings.
3. A final layer of material such as sand or road scrapings that is spread to fill in any small gaps in the road surface and soak up any wet spots.

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.

Surveyors differ in opinion, some use 10 per cent. of the screenings from the machine as blindage; the writer has tried these, but prefers the road scrapings.

Blindage is required to finish off the surface of the metal coating by filling up any interstices which may remain after it is consolidated.

Word Forms

• blindages

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Use blindage when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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