Heavy fire

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(Mil.)

a continuous or destructive cannonading, or discharge of small arms.

See also: Heavy

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barrage barrage fire Battery bombardment fire firebase firing invader shelling			But this adjutant returned half an hour later with the news that the commander of the dragoons had already retreated beyond the dip in the ground, as a heavy fire had been opened on him and he was losing men uselessly, and so had hastened to throw some sharpshooters into the wood. War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context They immediately grappled us; but, although surrounded by hundreds of savages, we extricated ourselves from them, and escaped all safe into the garrison, except one that was wounded, through a heavy fire from their army. Adventures Of Col. Daniel Boone by Filson, John View in context It was a heavy fire which overwhelmed these wretches with a thousand hailstones. Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context			heavenward heavenwardly heavenwards Heaver heaves heavier-than-air heavier-than-air craft heavily heavily traveled heavily-built heavily-laden heaviness Heaving Heaviside Heaviside layer Heavisome heavy heavy antitank weapon heavy artillery heavy breather Heavy cavalry heavy chain heavy cream heavy drop heavy earth Heavy fire heavy goods vehicle Heavy hand heavy hitter heavy hydrogen heavy industry heavy ion heavy lifting heavy metal heavy metal music Heavy metals heavy oil heavy oil of wine heavy particle Heavy sea Heavy solution heavy spar heavy swell heavy water heavy weapon Heavy weight heavy whipping cream Heavy-armed heavy-coated heavy-duty heavy-footed			Heavy Equipment and Truck and Transport Heavy Equipment Appraisal Experts heavy equipment claims support Heavy Equipment Maintenance Heavy Equipment Maintenance Company Heavy Equipment Mobile Transport Heavy Equipment Operations and Maintenance Heavy equipment operator Heavy Equipment Operator Repair Heavy Equipment Point of Impact Heavy Equipment Recovery Combat Utility Lift Evacuation System Heavy Equipment Transport Heavy Equipment Transporter Heavy Equipment Transporter System Heavy Equipment Transporter System Trailer Heavy Expanded Mobility Ammunition Trailer Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck-Load Handling System Heavy Express Heavy Extractable Petroleum Hydrocarbon heavy eye Heavy Fabrication Business Heavy Fast-Food User Heavy field artillery Heavy field artillery Heavy field artillery Heavy fire Heavy Fire Equipment Operator Heavy Flash Light Simulator heavy floe Heavy Foot of Government heavy force fit Heavy Forces Modernization Heavy Forged Hand Tools heavy fraction Heavy Fraction of Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Heavy Freight Allowal Heavy Front Engine Heavy Fuel Engine Heavy Fuel Flow Improver Heavy fuel oil Heavy fuel oil Heavy fuel oil heavy function heavy function heavy function heavy function Heavy Furnace Oil Heavy gas oil Heavy gas oil Heavy gas oil Heavy Gauge Steel Conduit Heavy Gear Heavy Girder Bridge Heavy Glider Conversion Unit heavy going Heavy Gold Electroplate

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