drill-hall

Updated: June 25, 2025

Meanwhile, amidst the color and music of the great drill-hall where the suffragists held their yearly Fete, Mary, dispensing tea and cakes in a flower-garlanded tent, enjoyed herself with simple whole-heartedness.

Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale - The Nest Builder

If the castellated towers are missing, and the building is constructed on strictly utilitarian lines, one is safe in referring to it as the "Drill-hall"; but if a couple of old cannon, vintage 1800, guard its portals, and barred windows and frowning turrets add to its martial splendour, then you have an "Armouries."

Frederic C. Curry - From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade