noun A small container used for carrying or storing medicine tablets.
- There is a list of possessions auctioned after her death – her pillboxes and playing cards, two silver-mounted ivory lemon-squeezers.
— Parul Sehgal, Beauty, bad temper and scandal in a riveting look at Princess Margaret (2018)
noun A low, flat concrete shelter used to defend a position with guns.
- 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.
— , Germans Stiff in Southern Reich (1944)
- 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.
— Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan (2019)
