Meanings
plural fireports
- A small opening in the armor or wall of a fortification, vehicle, or ship, designed for firing weapons while providing protection to the shooter.
They were fitted with cabin armor add-ons, with fireports.
2025 March 10, Wikipedia contributors, “CAESAR self-propelled howitzer”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation2 more examples
Ten minutes later the destroyers and cruisers opened fire on the Wolmi-do, their gun crews by now intimately familiar with the island's fireport caves and bunkers.
2001, Joseph H. Alexander, Fleet Operations in a Mobile War: September 1950-June 1951 (U.S. Navy and the Korean War), Naval Historical Center, page 20Machine guns were the usual weapon placed in the fireport, although direct-fire guns of up to 47-mm were also used.
2015, James R. Holbrook, Michael E. Dunn, Tactical Responses To Concentrated Artillery, Pickle Partners Publishing, page ??
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fireport. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fireport
“fireport.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fireport. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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