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Fire trench   /fˈaɪər trɛntʃ/   Listen
Fire trench

noun
1.
A trench especially constructed for the delivery of small-arms fire.





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... displayed, and after listening gravely and graciously to our assurances that already everything was "more better'n Pine Creek last year," Cheon allowed us a glimpse of the pudding through a cloud of steam, the company standing reverently around the fire trench in a circle, as it bent over the bubbling boiler; then scuttling away before us like an old hen with a following of chickens, he led the way to the waterbags, and asked our opinion on the hop-beer: "You think him jump-up longa dinner ...
— We of the Never-Never • Jeanie "Mrs. Aeneas" Gunn
... and by moving the two men on each flank two paces outwards, and the two centre men two paces backwards, and then causing the section to dig "on the line of their toes," there will result (even on the darkest night) a short fire trench with a central traverse. This sectional trench can be connected at the first opportunity with trenches dug by other sections similarly extended. During the Retreat from Mons (August-September, 1914) the "Contemptible Little Army," under Marshal French, frequently ...
— Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers • Anonymous
... The fire trench was battered in places out of recognition. But here and there we came across a bay of it which the bombardment had left more or less untouched. There were slings of cartridges still hanging against the wall of the trench. ...
— Letters from France • C. E. W. Bean


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