mortar fire

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   artillery fire delivered by a mortar

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Questions about mortar fire

What does mortar fire mean?

mortar fire means "artillery fire delivered by a mortar".

Is mortar fire a common word?

mortar 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.