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fire bay en · NOUN
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A trench, or section of a trench, with a concealed parapet from which soldiers can fire on the enemy.
Presently Corporal Hamley motioned him forward into the next fire-bay.
1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 219:In the third fire bay he found Sawdon and Towers crouched down over a small fire made out of shredded sandbags and candle ends, coaxing the flames.
1991, Pat Barker, Regeneration (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 138:
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