gunfire

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Shots from a gun or guns, typically creating loud report.

   “Let's hide in the trees to avoid the gunfire.”

2. isim The use of gunpowder-type weapons, mainly cannon, as opposed to swords or bayonets.

   “Killing people became much easier and faster once armies started using gunfire.”

3. isim The time of firing of the morning gun or the evening gun.

   “The grand event on the 14th was the shooting for the second stage for the Queen's prize. This commenced punctually at gunfire in the morning : the men being divided into four squads at the long ranges on the north side of the common.”

4. isim Tea, a cup of tea, especially one served early in the morning before first parade.

   “They had only in them the rolled mattresses, the neatly piled bed-boards and the empty tea-buckets of the orderly-men, empied of their last gun-fire.”