Pillbox

Quick meaning: Pillbox is a noun meaning A small box in which pills are kept.

Meaning

A small box in which pills are kept.

More Meanings

1. (military) A flat, concrete gun emplacement.
2. (archaic, slang) A doctor's carriage.

Example Sentences

There is a list of possessions auctioned after her death – her pillboxes and playing cards, two silver-mounted ivory lemon-squeezers.

Beneath the wide steppe sky women in white kerchiefs were digging trenches and building small pillboxes, looking up now and again in case 'those vermin' were on the wing.

It was reported that the Germans had established trench works in front of the pillboxes. The enemy was said to have taken refuge from American fire in the pillboxes, later emerging to take up the trench positions.

[…] the commercial traveller cuts in and out of the line in the dog-cart that carries his samples; the doctor contrives to be seen there in his pill-box on wheels; the eminent tragedian airs himself in a buggy; […]

Word Forms

• pillboxes
• pill-box

Synonyms for pillbox

Depending on context, synonyms include toque, turban.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include turban, toque, hatch, bunker, lockdown, pill-box.

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