high-angle fire

1. 1.

   fire from a cannon that is fired at an elevation greater than that for the maximum range

   Broaderartillery fire

Questions about high-angle fire

What does high-angle fire mean?

high-angle fire means "fire from a cannon that is fired at an elevation greater than that for the maximum range".

Is high-angle fire a common word?

high-angle fire is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.