searching fire

1. 1.

   fire distributed in depth by successive changes in the elevation of the gun

   Broaderfire

Questions about searching fire

What does searching fire mean?

searching fire means "fire distributed in depth by successive changes in the elevation of the gun".

Is searching fire a common word?

searching 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.