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Definition of Fire trench
1. Noun. A trench especially constructed for the delivery of small-arms fire.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fire Trench
Literary usage of Fire trench
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"8.2 is the most common form of fire trench, in which labour is saved by ...
84 shows a fire trench without parapet, with covor trench and communication. ..."
2. From the Front; Trench Poetry edited by Clarence Edward Andrews (1918)
"LINES WRITTEN IN A FIRE-TRENCH 'Tis midnight, and above the hollow trench, Seen
through a gaunt wood's battle-blasted trunks And the stark rafters of a ..."
3. Technique of Modern Tactics: A Study of Troop Leading Methods in the by Paul Stanley Bond, Michael Joseph McDonough (1916)
"It will dig 30 yards of communicating trench forward to E Company's fire trench,
and 65 yards of communicating trench laterally across the ravine to the G ..."
4. A Text-book on Field Fortification by Gustave Joseph Fiebeger (1912)
"fire trench B. If time and labor do not permit the construction of fire trench A,
... fire trench B was the type of trench employed by the Russians in their ..."
5. Fundamentals of Military Service by Lincoln Clarke Andrews, Leonard Wood (1916)
"In plan, a fire trench is not straight, but conforms generally to the contour
... and they -hould extend 2 feet in rear of the back edge of the fire trench. ..."
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