Firebase
//ˈfʌɪəbeɪs// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An encampment designed to provide indirect artillery support to infantry troops operating beyond the normal range of fire support from their own base camps; a fire support base.
"They had each set up a one-tank firebase, and become the center of a small community. Behind the sandbagged fort that each crew had built, a cluster of refugee huts and sprung up, and now, as the company drove by, these were the scenes of farewells."
- 2 an artillery base to support advancing troops wordnet
Example
More examples"They had each set up a one-tank firebase, and become the center of a small community. Behind the sandbagged fort that each crew had built, a cluster of refugee huts and sprung up, and now, as the company drove by, these were the scenes of farewells."
Etymology
From fire + base.
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