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fire bays

fire bays is the plural of fire bay.

Meaning of fire bay

Noun

fire bay (plural fire bays)

  1. A trench, or section of a trench, with a concealed parapet from which soldiers can fire on the enemy.
    • Presently Corporal Hamley motioned him forward into the next fire-bay.1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 219

Questions about fire bays

What is fire bays the plural of?
Fire bays is the plural of fire bay.

Words near fire bays in the dictionary

  1. fire barn
  2. fire barns
  3. fire basket
  4. fire baskets
  5. fire bay
  6. fire bays
  7. fire beater
  8. fire beaters
  9. fire beetle
  10. fire beetles
  11. fire bell

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