pillboxes

Noun

pillbox (plural pillboxes)

1. A small box in which pills are kept.
   • There is a list of possessions auctioned after her death – her pillboxes and playing cards, two silver-mounted ivory lemon-squeezers.2018 August 2, Parul Sehgal, “Beauty, bad temper and scandal in a riveting look at Princess Margaret”, in The Bellingham Herald, volume 130, number 214, Bellingham, Wash., page 15T, column 2
2. A flat, concrete gun emplacement.
   • 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.1944 December 19, “Germans Stiff in Southern Reich”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page 4
3. (archaic, slang) A doctor's carriage.
   • The doctor generously told him where he lived in a loud and audible manner, gave him half-a-crown, and was about ascending his pill-box, after bidding him call upon him, in a day or two, when a servant in a splendid livery stepped forward from the hotel […]1838, Oasis: An Anthology to Divert an Idle Hour, volume 1, page 9