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Definition of Drumfire
1. Noun. Intense and continuous artillery fire.
Definition of Drumfire
1. Noun. Heavy, continuous, rapid gunfire ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Drumfire
1. heavy, continuous gunfire [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drumfire
Literary usage of Drumfire
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Surgeon in Arms by R. J. Manion (1918)
"Our artillery is so immense in numbers of guns that drumfire is common by day.
By night the sky on the horizon is lit up in all directions by the repeated ..."
2. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"It led the Germans to coin and add a new word to their vocabulary, " Trommel-feuer,"
or "drumfire." Others called it whirlpool, or cyclone- fire, ..."
3. The United States in the World War by John Bach McMaster (1918)
"... in spite of the Roumanian campaign was stronger in men and material than ever
before; how, "while on the Somme and on the Corso the drumfire resounded, ..."
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