fire trench

noun

Definitions

  1. A deep trench from which one can fire on the enemy.

    • One night in particular the front line was stubbornly pounded with minenwerfers (it was a ‘minnywafer’ sector, and one often turned cold in the firetrench as one heard the approaching swish of these monsters).
    • Just before they reached the fire-trenches they stood aside to allow a stretcher-party carrying down a man to pass.

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