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Concentrated fire   /kˈɑnsəntrˌeɪtəd fˈaɪər/   Listen
Concentrated fire

noun
1.
Fire from two or more weapons directed at a single target or area (as fire by batteries of two or more warships).  Synonym: massed fire.






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... Highlanders, however, undaunted by the carnage, rushed forward, and many of them fairly climbed their way into the works, mounting on each other's shoulders. But their rash valour brought upon them the concentrated fire of grape, by which the successful assailants were cut down to a man. General Lambert, on whom the command now devolved, finding it impossible to carry the works, and the slaughter being appalling, drew off his troops. In this sanguinary repulse, the British lost two ...
— Neville Trueman the Pioneer Preacher • William Henry Withrow



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