[CROSS- 9.] Mil. Lines of fire from two or more positions crossing each other. Also fig. So Cross-firing vbl. sb.
1860. Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alt., III. cxxvii. 83. Exposed to a cross fire of musquetry or matchlocks.
1873. Black, Pr. Thule, xiv. 217. A continual cross-fire of small pleasantries.
1884. J. Hall, A Chr. Home, 160. And so the firing and the cross-firing proceed where all should be peace.
