Gunfire

noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Shots from a gun or guns, typically creating loud report. uncountable, usually

    "Let's hide in the trees to avoid the gunfire."

  2. 2
    the act of shooting a gun wordnet
  3. 3
    The use of gunpowder-type weapons, mainly cannon, as opposed to swords or bayonets. uncountable, usually

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

  4. 4
    The time of firing of the morning gun or the evening gun. uncountable, usually

    "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."

  5. 5
    Tea, a cup of tea, especially one served early in the morning before first parade. slang, uncountable, usually

    "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."

Etymology

From gun + fire.

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