gun line

[guhn lahyn]

noun

plural

gun lines 

1. a row of guns, particularly naval or artillery guns, ready to be fired; a row of armed individuals in a tactical formation ready to fire.

2. a cable, one end of which can be fired from a gun in order to cross a distance which cannot be achieved by throwing.

Example Sentences

On Sunday, the military provided The New York Times a tour of a gun line in eastern Ukraine, the first independent confirmation by international media that the guns are in use.

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The Ukrainian military has insufficient quantity of even medium-range artillery, such as weapons that might hit back at the Russian gun line harassing the Ukrainian unit about nine miles away.

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The Ukrainian Army does fire back from artillery operating to the rear of this position but has too few weapons to dislodge the Russian gun line.

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“The gun line is no longer broke,” said Executive Councilor David Wheeler, R-Milford.

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The House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee held a public hearing Wednesday on a Senate-passed bill that would abolish the state police “gun line,” and instead put the FBI solely in charge of performing background checks using the National Information Criminal Background System.

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