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Definition of Direct fire
1. Noun. Fire delivered on a target that is visible to the person aiming it.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Direct Fire
Literary usage of Direct fire
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Infantry Tactics: For the Instruction, Exercise, and Manœuvres of the by Silas Casey (1863)
"The oblique firings will be executed to the right and left, and by the same
commands as the •direct fire, with this single difference—the command aim will ..."
2. Infantry Tactics, Double and Single Rank, Adapted to American Topography and by Emory Upton (1875)
"The firings are direct or oblique, and are executed as follows: The direct fire.
105. The instructor commands: 1. Fire by squad, 2. Squad, 3. READY, 4. ..."
3. Evaporating, Condensing and Cooling Apparatus: Explanations, Formulae, and by Eugen Hausbrand (1916)
"INSTALLATIONS for heating with a direct fire are described in detail in many
excellent works; in this place only a few important remarks will be briefly ..."
4. Evaporating, Condensing and Cooling Apparatus: Explanations, Formulae, and by Eugen Hausbrand (1903)
"APPARATUS FOR HEATING WITH direct fire. INSTALLATIONS for heating with a direct
fire are described in detail in many excellent works; in this place only a ..."
5. Technique of Modern Tactics: A Study of Troop Leading Methods in the by Paul Stanley Bond, Michael Joseph McDonough (1916)
"If the fight is to be to decision the artillery should if possible be so located
that it can be run up to a crest for direct fire in the later stages of the ..."
6. Workshop receipts by Robert Haldane (1883)
"Boiler Feed-water heated to 130° F. by direct Fire. ... Incrustation of Water
heated by direct Fire to a temperature of 130° F. Calcic Carbonate . ..."
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