field of fire

American  

noun

1. the area covered by a weapon or group of weapons firing from a given position.

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field of fire British  

noun

1. the area that a weapon or group of weapons can cover with fire from a given position

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field of fire

"I was praying for a clear field of fire."

From Time Magazine Archive

The gadget flooded his field of fire with invisible infra-red light.

From Time Magazine Archive

Noon Second surf is at a funky little right wedge that breaks in about six inches of water over a field of fire coral.

From Time Magazine Archive

They flew in reinforcements, swept the outskirt junglebrush to clear their field of fire, and borrowed the royal elephants to haul wood for their entrenchments.

From Time Magazine Archive

I never before was so impressed with the idea of annihilation, as I was in viewing that rolling, rushing, leaping and devouring volume or field of fire.

From Memoirs of Orange Jacobs by Jacobs, Orange