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fireports

fireports is the plural of fireport.

Meaning of fireport

Noun

fireport (plural fireports)

  1. A small opening in the armor or wall of a fortification, vehicle, or ship, designed for firing weapons while providing protection to the shooter.
    • Ten minutes later the destroyers and cruisers opened fire on the Wolmi-do, their gun crews by now intimately familiar with the island's fireport caves and bunkers.2001, Joseph H. Alexander, Fleet Operations in a Mobile War: September 1950-June 1951 (U.S. Navy and the Korean War), Naval Historical Center, page 20

Questions about fireports

What is fireports the plural of?
Fireports is the plural of fireport.

Words near fireports in the dictionary

  1. fireplug
  2. fireplugs
  3. firepole
  4. firepoles
  5. fireport
  6. fireports
  7. firepot
  8. firepote
  9. firepots
  10. firepower
  11. firepower kill

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