| 单词 | curtain fire |
| 释义 | > as lemmascurtain fire b. Military. (In full curtain of fire, curtain fire.) A concentration of rapid and continuous artillery or machine-gun fire, etc., on a designated line or area, to prevent the advance or retreat of enemy troops, or to clear the way for the combatant's advance. Also, a concentration of fire to block the progress of aircraft. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > type of firing point and blank1590 false fire1602 potting1613 point-blank1614 running fire1629 pounding1633 bulleting1635 platooning1706 sharp-shot1725 street firing1727 ricochet1740 fire curtain1744 plunging fire1747 reverse fire1758 sniping1773 enfilade1796 rapid fire1800 line-firing1802 concentric1804 sharpshooting1806 rake1810 sniping fire1821 cross-firing1837 file-firing1837 curved fire1854 night firing1856 file-fire1857 volley-firing1859 cross-fire1860 joy-firing1864 snap-shooting1872 stringing1873 pot-shooting1874 indirect fire1879 sweeping1907 rapid1913 curtain of fire1916 ripple1939 ripple-firing1940 ripple fire1961 1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 114 Shells began to batter at their parapet, and to prepare a curtain of fire along their front. 1920 D. A. Macalister Field Gunnery (ed. 4) vii. 157 During an attack..the batteries, acting in concert, establish the ‘curtain of fire’ or ‘barrage’. 1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 98/2 The idea also was evolved of barrage fire, a curtain of bursting shell to be put up in the path of the raiders. 1943 T. Horsley Find, Fix & Strike 92 We..began our glide through the curtain of lead towards the inner harbour. < as lemmas |
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