barrage fire is a noun meaning "the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target". It carries one recorded sense.
the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
“they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops”
“the shelling went on for hours without pausing”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for barrage fire come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.