单词 | ground-strafing |
释义 | > as lemmasground-strafing ground-strafing n. (also ground-straffing) ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > attack from low level strafe1915 ground-strafing1928 1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station iv ‘Ground-straffing’ by low-flying machines. 1934 V. M. Yeates Winged Victory i. iii. 31 Unfortunately they were good machines for ground-strafing. They could dive straight down on anything, and when a few feet off the ground, go straight up again. 1941 Times Weekly 5 Feb. 8 In Libya..air activity was mainly confined to protective fighter patrols for our advancing troops and ground-strafing of the retreating enemy between Derna and Barce. 1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 38 Ground-strafing, low-flying attack on transport or trenches; careless driving by servicemen. 1963 S. Douglas Years of Combat viii. 194 Ground strafing..had been a somewhat haphazard sort of business. < as lemmas |
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