rifle pit

American  

noun

1. a pit or short trench affording shelter to riflemen in firing at an enemy.

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Etymology

Origin of rifle pit

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

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rifle pit

But after the little unpleasant episode in the rifle pit, I went back and took my stand.

From "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show by Watkins, Sam R.

Whistling louder than ever, and looking vacant of countenance, he walked boldly toward the first rifle pit, and, when the sharp hail of the German sentry came, he promptly threw up his hands.

From The Hosts of the Air by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)

About 2 miles west of Bontoc is a Spanish rifle pit, and there the Spanish soldiers, now swelled to about 600 men, lay in wait for the insurrectos.

From The Bontoc Igorot by Jenks, Albert Ernest

The first day we were placed on reserve, at a substantial rifle pit, about fifty yards back of the regular picket line.

From In The Ranks From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House by McBride, R. E.

The boys of the Thirty-third New York being on the skirmish line on the 8th, charged a rifle pit with shouts and hurrahs, and drove the rebels from it.

From Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by Stevens, George T.