What does fire trench mean?

fire trench

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English

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A deep trench from which one can fire on the enemy.

"One night in particular the front line was stubbornly pounded with minenwerfers (it was a ‘minnywafer’ sector, and one often turned cold in the firetrench as one heard the approaching swish of these monsters)."
"Just before they reached the fire-trenches they stood aside to allow a stretcher-party carrying down a man to pass."

fire trenches (plural) firetrench (alternative)

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