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

From his position he can look down into our camp, see every rifle pit, and almost count the pieces of artillery in our fortifications.

From The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer by Beatty, John

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

On the 21st of August they drove the rebels from a rifle pit in their front, capturing forty prisoners, just four times as many as there were men in their own ranks.

From Vermont riflemen in the war for the union, 1861 to 1865 A history of Company F, First United States sharp shooters by Ripley, William Y. W.

They were coming straight for the rifle pit; no doubt they had marked the bushes masking it.

From The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest by Footner, Hulbert

Some one in the rifle pit was speaking.

From On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles by Bridges, T. C. (Thomas Charles)