fire trench

noun

A deep trench from which one can fire on the enemy.

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Meanings

nounfire trench (plural fire trenches)

plural fire trenches · alternative firetrench

  1. governmentA deep trench from which one can fire on the enemy.

    Just before they reached the fire-trenches they stood aside to allow a stretcher-party carrying down a man to pass.

    1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 218
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    One night in particular the front line was stubbornly pounded with minenwerfers (it was a ‘minnywafer’ sector, and one often turned cold in the firetrench as one heard the approaching swish of these monsters).

    1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 79
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