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firestep

firestep is the alternative form of fire step.

Meaning of fire step

Noun

fire step (plural fire steps)

  1. (historical) A step or platform dug into the front side of a military trench - allowing soldiers to stand on it in order to fire over the parapet.
    • We stood on the fire step with our heads over the top, peering out into No Man's Land.1917, Arthur Guy Empey, Over The Top

Forms of firestep

pluralfiresteps

Questions about firestep

What is firestep the alternative form of?
Firestep is the alternative form of fire step.

Words near firestep in the dictionary

  1. firestarting
  2. firesteel
  3. firesteels
  4. Firestein
  5. Firesteins
  6. firestep
  7. firesteps
  8. Firester
  9. Firesters
  10. firestick
  11. firestick farming

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Adapted from Wiktionary: firestep (page history and authors); fire step (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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