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Strafe   /streɪf/   Listen
Strafe

noun
1.
An attack of machine-gun fire or cannon fire from a low flying airplane.



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"Strafe" Quotes from Famous Books



... hour's work," whispered Raymonde to Ardiune. "Tennis is off to-night. Strafe the old camp! I wish the ...
— The Madcap of the School • Angela Brazil
... we were ordered forward to complete the digging of a new reserve area. Just as we were falling in to move off, a regular strafe started in the front line only just over a mile away, but luckily it stopped just before we were to move off. It was our first experience of being under fire, and for all we knew it might have been the sort of thing that happened every night, so we just carried on as if nothing ...
— The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry - and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 • D. D. Ogilvie
... Even now I suppose one wrong move may lead to an outbreak of hostilities, and the recent German victories may yet bring in other countries on her side. Bulgaria has been a glaring instance of siding with the one she considers the winning side (Gott strafe her!), and Greece is still wondering what to do! Thank God, I belong to a race that is full of primitive instincts! Poor old England still barges in whenever there is a fight going on, and gets her head knocked, and goes on fighting just ...
— My War Experiences in Two Continents • Sarah Macnaughtan
... "Don't strafe the padre," he said. "He brought along a church, an entire church. Is there another padre in the whole Army who could have got a church ...
— Our Casualty And Other Stories - 1918 • James Owen Hannay, AKA George A. Birmingham
... inside of half an hour, beautifully done. And when I insisted on being told where he'd taken them, so that I might send them to the same place again, he admitted that he had done the work himself. 'My old job, ma'am,' says he. 'I was boots at the Argyle Club, ma'am, before I went out to strafe the 'Uns. Seven years, ma'am. But they got a girl doin' it now, a flapper. Wouldn't take me back.' Just fancy! And Tarkins a trench hero! So ...
— The House of Torchy • Sewell Ford


Words linked to "Strafe" :   onset, onrush, onslaught, strafer, attack, assail


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