fire trench

See also: firetrench

English

Alternative forms

• firetrench

Noun

fire trench (plural fire trenches)

1. (military) A deep trench from which one can fire on the enemy.
   • 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 79:

     One night in particular the front line was stubbornly pounded with minenwerfers (it was a ‘minnywafer’ sector, and one often turned cold in the firetrench as one heard the approaching swish of these monsters).

   • 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 218:

     Just before they reached the fire-trenches they stood aside to allow a stretcher-party carrying down a man to pass.