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Concentrated fire   /kˈɑnsəntrˌeɪtəd fˈaɪər/   Listen
Concentrated fire

noun
1.
Fire from two or more weapons directed at a single target or area (as fire by batteries of two or more warships).  Synonym: massed fire.





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"Concentrated fire" Quotes from Famous Books



... affected by the fire of Capron's battery." Colonel Comba, of the Twelfth Infantry, says: "The artillery made the breach through which our men entered the stone work." Bonsal says that Captain Capron, "under the concentrated fire of his four guns at a point blank range of a thousand yards, had converted the fort into a shapeless ruin," when ...
— The Colored Regulars in the United States Army • T. G. Steward


Words linked to "Concentrated fire" :   firing, fire, massed fire


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