Definition of Mortar fire

1. Noun. Artillery fire delivered by a mortar.

Generic synonyms: Artillery Fire, Cannon Fire

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mortar Fire

mortal sins
mortalitie
mortalities
mortality
mortality rate
mortality table
mortalize
mortalized
mortalizes
mortalizing
mortall
mortally
mortalness
mortals
mortar
mortar fire (current term)
mortar kidney
mortarboard
mortarboards
mortared
mortaria
mortaring
mortarium
mortarless
mortarlike
mortarman
mortarmen
mortars
mortary
mortbell

Literary usage of Mortar fire

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"During the day our fire was principally confined to shelling the point of woods from both forts, and with apparently good results, as the mortar-fire was ..."

2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"Several times during the bombardment the enemy's gunboats attempted to pass up the river, under cover of their mortar-fire, ..."

3. History of the Confederate States Navy from Its Organization to the by John Thomas Scharf (1886)
"... as the mortar fire was slackened toward evening. The casemates were very much cut up by the enemy's fire, which was increased at night. ..."

4. The United Service (1904)
"The results of the mortar fire enumerated are: first, the considerable neutralization of the fire of Fort Jackson; second, the influence of the mortars in ..."

5. Merrill's Marauders: February to May, 1944 by DIANE Publishing Company (1990)
"From dawn the Japanese, in what was presumably a further effort ro cover the withdrawal of their main force, poured a steady stream of mortar fire on Orange ..."

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