Meaning of Gunfire | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Shots from a gun or guns, typically creating loud report.
   uncountable, usually
2. The use of gunpowder-type weapons, mainly cannon, as opposed to swords or bayonets.
   uncountable, usually
3. The time of firing of the morning gun or the evening gun.
   uncountable, usually
4. Tea, a cup of tea, especially one served early in the morning before first parade.
   slang, uncountable, usually

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Examples

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

“Sergeant, direct⟳ your gunfire toward that copse of trees.”

“When sensors record⟳ a gunlike noise in, say⟳, Cape Town or Chicago, software analyzes it for the sonic signatures of gunfire, and within seconds Beisner and his team listen⟳ to those audio files and look⟳ at those recorded waveforms at their office in Newark, Calif.”

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

“Art. 33. All Plying boats, with the exception of two which are to be weekly appoin[t]ed by the Chief Commissary of Police and Harbour Master, and at gunfire in the evening to be placed in a tier alongside of the Quay or at a place⟳ to be pointed out by these Officers and fastened by a claim⟳ and a padlock, the key of which is to be kept by the Porter on duty or by the Police Guard who is to release⟳ them at gunfire in the morning.”

“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.”

“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.”

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