drumfire

English

Etymology

From drum +‎ fire, calque of German Trommelfeuer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹʌmfaɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈdɹʌmfaɪɚ/

Noun

drumfire (countable and uncountable, plural drumfires)

1. Heavy, continuous, rapid gunfire.
2. (figurative) A sustained attack.
   • 1960, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business, Operations of Small Business Investment Companies: Hearings... (page 120)

     The past year has seen a shart ^[sic] rise in the drumfire of attacks on one of management's most highly regarded methods of executive incentive payments — the stock option.

Translations

heavy, continuous, rapid gunfire

• Dutch: trommelvuur (nl) n, roffelvuur n
• Finnish: rumputuli
• German: Trommelfeuer (de) n
• Swedish: trumeld (sv) c