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fire line

noun



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Word History and Origins

Origin of fire line1

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05

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Example Sentences

The story, inevitably, returns her to the fire line at a later point.

McGettigan asked, at the beginning of what would be a rapid-fire line of questioning.

Your job is to watch a fire line that runs along this side of the base of that point yonder.

The fire line looked like some old wood-road, where trees had been cut out and brush cleared away.

What I had164 to do was to run back and forth along the fire line, crushing the dragon's claws.

By the time the fire-line had advanced to the steeper slopes it was one vast U about three miles long.

Then together they bore him, now unconscious, slowly down below the first fire-line.

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