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单词 action front !
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action front (also rear)!
b. Used as a command given to an artillery unit to indicate the direction in which fighting will take place; spec. (a) action front (also rear)!: ‘prepare for action in front of (or behind) the line of guns’; (b) action left (also right)!: ‘prepare for action to the left (or right)’.
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action front (also rear)!1845
1845 Instr. Field Artillery 116 When the cannoneers are mounted on the ammunition chests, they dismount and run to their posts at the command Action Front.
1845 Instr. Field Artillery 132 When a battery is halted or marching in a flank direction, it may be formed into battery to the right or left, by the command Action Right or Action Left.
1866 J. E. Cooke Surry of Eagle's-nest xcviii. 350Action rear!’ Pelham shouted, darting to his guns.
1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 37 But 'e swung 'is 'orses 'andsome when it came to ‘Action Front!
1902 Field Artill. Training v. 161 Guns..may be brought into action..by the command ‘Action rear’, so as to save unnecessary labour and delay.
1908 G. W. Cable Kincaid's Battery lvii. 313 ‘Battery, trot, walk. Forward into battery! Action front!’ It was at that word that Kincaid's horse went down.
1999 A. Vernon Eyes of Orion ii. 99 When contact with the enemy is made or immediately expected, the platoon leader issues a battle drill command: action front, action right, action left, or action rear.
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