| 单词 | plunging fire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplunging fire 3. Of artillery or rifle fire: directed downwards from a higher level. Esp. in plunging fire, plunging shot. Cf. plunge v. 3b. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > type of firing point and blank1590 false fire1602 potting1613 point-blank1614 running fire1629 pounding1633 bulleting1635 platooning1706 sharp-shot1725 street firing1727 ricochet1740 fire curtain1744 plunging fire1747 reverse fire1758 sniping1773 enfilade1796 rapid fire1800 line-firing1802 concentric1804 sharpshooting1806 rake1810 sniping fire1821 cross-firing1837 file-firing1837 curved fire1854 night firing1856 file-fire1857 volley-firing1859 cross-fire1860 joy-firing1864 snap-shooting1872 stringing1873 pot-shooting1874 indirect fire1879 sweeping1907 rapid1913 curtain of fire1916 ripple1939 ripple-firing1940 ripple fire1961 1747 tr. M. Maigret Treat. Safety & Maintenance States 278 Greatly exposed to the plunging fire of the enemy both on the front and flanks, as soon as they have gain'd the head of the parapet. 1761 J. Call in R. O. Cambridge Acct. War in India 173 The old curtain wall..is a good deal shattered..by the plunging shot from the enemy's west battery. 1846 G. G. Meade Let. 27 Sept. in Life & Lett. (1913) I. 133 In passing along the road we had been subjected to a plunging fire from two pieces on the top of ‘Independence Hill’. 1891 Cent. Mag. July 357 The Indians held the sharp crests of the steep hills, and were delivering a plunging fire into the troops. 1902 Perry (Iowa) Daily Chief 13 July Unless the boat be so close as to give a strongly plunging shot. 1974 A. Price Other Paths to Glory i. vii. 87 It was too strong to be attacked,..safe from everything except plunging fire. 2000 C. Lamb in G. Astor Bloody Forest xiv. 296 The slope of the hill and our position on it made us the victims of plunging artillery fire. < as lemmas |
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