Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "cross-fire".
A quick cross-fire of greetings and questions and rough West Saxon jests flew from rank to rank, or were bandied about betwixt the marching archers and the gazing crowd.
Since I received this information an altogether remarkable cross-firing of telegrams has been going backwards and forwards along the wires to Cork.
As the Arabs passed directly under them the Palmach opened up a cross-fire with the two guns and turned the ravine into a gory turkey shoot.