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Grazing fire   /grˈeɪzɪŋ fˈaɪər/   Listen
Grazing fire

noun
1.
Fire approximately parallel to the ground; the center of the cone of fire does rise above 1 meter from the ground.





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... front. The Federals, disposed in several lines, were in overwhelming strength. Their batteries were free to concentrate on the advancing infantry. Their riflemen, posted in the interval between the artillery masses, swept the long slopes with a grazing fire, while fence, bank, and ravine, gave shelter from the Confederate bullets. Nor were the enormous difficulties which confronted the attack in any way mitigated by careful arrangement on the part of the Confederate staff. The only hope of success, if success ...
— Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War • G. F. R. Henderson


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