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Strafe   /streɪf/   Listen
Strafe

verb
1.
Attack with machine guns or cannon fire from a low-flying plane.



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"Strafe" Quotes from Famous Books



... brief Royal Decree [15th November (Busching says 8th), 1723.] (which is still extant among the curiosities of the Universe), ordering Wolf to quit Halle and the Prussian Dominions, bag and baggage, forevermore, within eight-and-forty hours, "BEY STRAFE DES STRANGES, under pain of ...
— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Volume V. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle
... obeyed. The other read it. "I know," ventured Peter, "but I got the dickens of a strafe from the Colonel. He said he had no idea when I could get away, and had better see ...
— Simon Called Peter • Robert Keable


Words linked to "Strafe" :   onslaught, assail, onrush, strafer, onset, attack


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