Meaning of gunflash | Babel Free

Definitions

The flash of a (naval, artillery, tank or hand) gun firing.

Examples

“He picked them out, remembering how he had stared at them every day for a week, trying to pick⟳ up the Vichy gunflashes but seeing nothing but the bare heat-shimmering hills; remembering how in the night you could see⟳ the gunflashes ...”

“Then the German guns suddenly went off with one or two gunflashes faintly visible to the side of the smoke-screen. The Russians got ready to answer⟳. Somewhere high up, a German shell whined, harmlessly, like⟳ a mosquito.”

“"Williams thinks it's important. I've been watching those gunflashes out there. They've all been to the east or southeast. We've been thinking the war was out there...but I saw⟳ single gunflashes...four of them...about south southwest, just before daylight."”

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