stand fire

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English

Verb

stand fire (third-person singular simple present stands fire, present participle standing fire, simple past and past participle stood fire)

  1. (idiomatic) To receive the fire of arms from an enemy without giving way.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stand fire”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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