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fire trench

fire trench noun: a deep trench from which one can fire on the enemy.

Noun

fire trench (plural fire trenches)

  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).1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 79
    • Just before they reached the fire-trenches they stood aside to allow a stretcher-party carrying down a man to pass.1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 218

Forms of fire trench

pluralfire trenches
alternative formfiretrench

Questions about fire trench

What does fire trench mean?
Fire trench means a deep trench from which one can fire on the enemy.
What part of speech is fire trench?
Fire trench is a noun.
What is the plural of fire trench?
The plural of fire trench is fire trenches.

Words near fire trench in the dictionary

  1. fire towers
  2. fire trail
  3. fire trails
  4. fire train
  5. fire trains
  6. fire trench
  7. fire trenches
  8. fire triangle
  9. fire triangles
  10. fire truck
  11. fire trucks

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