Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Heavy, continuous gunfire.
  • noun Something likened to continuous gunfire.

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  • noun Heavy, continuous, rapid gunfire

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  • noun intense and continuous artillery fire

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Examples

  • A lot of the men say the drumfire is the worst, and a lot of them can't get over the sight of the first man they saw killed.

    Menschen im Krieg. English Andreas Latzko 1909

  • This drumfire of denialism nonsense will drown out science 10 to 1 before long.

    Scientist Discusses Latest Report of Rising Global Temperatures | Universe Today 2010

  • A drumfire of editorials, threatening to drown the American space effort.

    I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

  • A drumfire of statements and signals points in the opposite direction.

    Elizabeth Spiro Clark: Slouching Towards Tehran 2008

  • And the air was rent by drumfire and shellblast and the surging cheers of the populace.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • And the air was rent by drumfire and shellblast and the surging cheers of the populace.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • Then at last, with the drumfire of rain held safely at bay, with the small blue rings of gas flame, even this minimal rusty kitchen became comfortable and homelike.

    Kahawa Westlake, Donald E. 1982

  • Lightning flickers all around the horizon, and thunder that reminds the military men on board of drumfire announcing battles they're not sure now if they survived or still dream, still can wake up into and die ....

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • Apart from the hissing of the pressure lamp, there was no sound inside the hut other than the metallic drumfire of the ice spicules against the icesheathed eastern wall of the hut.

    Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963

  • The sky was black now, the night so dark that it was scarcely possible to distinguish land from sea and the rain was a drumfire of sound on the roof of the cabin.

    Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961

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