gunfire.
Shots from a gun or guns, typically creating loud report.
Meaning & usage
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.
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.
The time of firing of the morning gun or the evening gun.
Tea, a cup of tea, especially one served early in the morning before first parade.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰéntis Proto-Germanic *gunþiz Old Norse gunnr Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂tís Proto-Germanic *hildiz Old Norse hildr Old Norse Gunnhildrder. Middle English gunne English gun Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ Proto-Germanic *fōr Proto-West Germanic *fuir Old English fȳr Middle English fyr English fire English gunfire From gun + fire.
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