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fire trenches

fire trenches is the plural of fire trench.

Meaning of fire trench

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

Questions about fire trenches

What is fire trenches the plural of?
Fire trenches is the plural of fire trench.

Words near fire trenches in the dictionary

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

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