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rifle pits

n. (plural of rifle pit English)

Usage examples of "rifle pits".

The big houses from Washington Street to Peachtree Street blazed with lights, as the muddy fighters in from the rifle pits were enĀ­.

Chinese families with their children and an occasional dog were sitting about, mostly in and near rifle pits.

Pickets in rifle pits well in front of the main Creek position traded gunfire with the Yankees.

The chink of picks, knives, and sticks digging impro-vised rifle pits and sangars resumed.

Down by the shore the Mississippians in their rifle pits might see a little, and the scouts undoubtedly had seen much, else the signal guns would not be firing.

Behind the hedgerows they dug rifle pits and tunnelled openings for machine-gun positions in each corner.

Climbing the mountain he dug two rifle pits, one forward, the other some distance further back, which he could reach by a hidden route.