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Definition of High-angle fire
1. Noun. Fire from a cannon that is fired at an elevation greater than that for the maximum range.
Lexicographical Neighbors of High-angle Fire
Literary usage of High-angle fire
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The International Military Digest Annual by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1919)
"The problem of remaining masked from hostile artillery fire has been extraordinarily
complicated with the use of high angle fire and aerial observation, ..."
2. On the use of field artillery on service: With Special Reference to that of by A. Taubert (1856)
"The high angle fire of the 7-pounder field howitzer. ... The high angle fire is
intended to strike a horizontal and covered object, and is distinguished ..."
3. The United Service (1903)
"For these purposes I consider high-angle fire essential. ... There are some
harbors where this could be done by high-angle fire over intervening points of ..."
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