1793 22 May 3/3 On the 10th, about two o'clock, a strong cannonade and platoon fire was kept up from the eminences of Hechtheim and the Holy Cross.
1872 Sept. 525/1 An approaching platoon fire is heard.
1990 B. Cornwell vii. 120 The musketry was not the huge eruptions of platoon fire, but rather the smaller sporadic scrapping of skirmishers.