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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Example Sentences

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

But the Grants had a serious fault: their main guns' limited field of fire.

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

It had high ground beyond the river, a clear field of fire on the enemy, good communications.

From Time Magazine Archive

Until the orders placed should begin to bear fruit, the Farman pusher machines, which could mount a machine-gun with a clear field of fire in front, were the only suitable fighting machines.

From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir