İngilizce dilinde "gunfire" tanımı

noun

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

   • Let's hide in the trees to avoid the gunfire.
   • Sergeant, direct your gunfire toward that copse of trees.

2. (chiefly military) The use of gunpowder-type weapons, mainly cannon, as opposed to swords or bayonets.

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

3. (military) The time of firing of the morning gun or the evening gun.

4. (military slang) Tea, a cup of tea, especially one served early in the morning before first parade.

   • 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.