Associations to the word «Firebase»

Wiktionary

FIREBASE, noun. (military) An encampment designed to provide indirect-fire artillery support to infantry operating beyond the normal range of fire support from their own base camps

Dictionary definition

FIREBASE, noun. An artillery base to support advancing troops.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats