barrage

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  1. noun An artificial obstruction, such as a dam or irrigation channel, built in a watercourse to increase its depth or to divert its flow.
  2. noun A heavy curtain of artillery fire directed in front of friendly troops to screen and protect them.
  3. noun A rapid, concentrated discharge of missiles, as from small arms.
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  • To prepare for the barrage, the Idaho Center has added a new server. —  IdahoStatesman.com News Updates
  • Continuing today's Spike-spurred media barrage is the following trailer for Watchmen: The End is Nigh (PS3, 360, PC). —  *Shacknews* Games
  • Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, called the barrage of e-mails "a dirty trick" aimed at suppressing Democratic voters. —  WTOP / Business / Biz Stories
  • I watched the luminous hands of my watch get nearer and nearer to the fateful moment, for the barrage was to open at five-thirty. —  The Great War As I Saw It
  • At 11.45 our barrage--artillery, stokes-mortars and machine-guns--opened on the section of the enemy trench to be raided (Ibex Trench from Oskar Farm to The Stables) a little to our right; and as our barrage lifted, the bombers went into the enemy trench. —  At Ypres with Best-Dunkley
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  1. French, from barrer, to bar, from barre, bar, from Old French; see bar1.
  2. French (tir de) barrage, barrier (fire); see barrage1.

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  1. French, a bar, barrier, dam, from barrer, bar, obstruct, from barre, bar, obstruction: see bar and -age.
 

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