| 单词 | barrage fire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbarrage fire b. In modern military use: a barrier of continuous artillery or machine-gun fire concentrated in a given area, used to prevent the advance or retreat of enemy troops, to protect troops advancing against the enemy, to repulse attacks by aircraft, and for destructive purposes; creeping or moving barrage, a curtain of fire moving before and directed from behind advancing troops. More explicitly barrage fire. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > [noun] > bombardment battery1548 cannonade1562 cannonading1637 bombarding1687 bomb battery1695 bombardment1702 cannon fire1725 bombard1807 shelling1860 hate1915 barrage1916 box barrage1916 creeping barrage1916 area bombardment1918 area shoot1919 shoot1941 stonk1944 1916 H. W. Yoxall Let. 22 Sept. in Fashion of Life (1966) iv. 32 The Bosche barrage was almost as good as ours. 1917 Times 11 July 5/5 The German barrage fire on the trenches, though it lasted so short a time, was of extreme severity. 1917 Times 26 Sept. 7/6 The barrage was effective in keeping the raiders at a great height. 1918 ‘B. Cable’ Air Men o' War ix. 118 Next instant he plunged at, into, and through the barrage, his machine rocking and pitching and rolling in the turmoil of shell-torn air. 1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 250/1 This breakdown of communications..led to the general introduction of the ‘creeping barrage’ (French barrage roulant, German Feuerwalze). Briefly, it is a screen of shells bursting on and close to the ground, which is moved forward across the country by short leaps according to a pre-determined time-table. 1938 Times 7 Sept. 9/1 Aeroplanes, balloons, guns, and searchlights, and the barrage itself had their part to play in the air defences of London. < as lemmas |
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