gunfire

noun gunfires

1. uncountable, usually Shots from a gun or guns, typically creating loud report. Let's hide in the trees to avoid the gunfire.
2. uncountable, usually The use of gunpowder-type weapons, mainly cannon, as opposed to swords or bayonets. Killing people became much easier and faster once armies started using gunfire.
3. uncountable, usually The time of firing of the morning gun or the evening gun. Art. 33. All Plying boats, with the exception of two which are to be weekly appoin[t]ed by the Chief Commissary of Police and Harbour Master, and at gunfire in the evening to be placed in a tier alongside of the Quay or at a place to be pointed out by these Officers and fastened by a claim and a pad
4. slang, uncountable, usually Tea, a cup of tea, especially one served early in the morning before first parade. They had only in them the rolled mattresses, the neatly piled bed-boards and the empty tea-buckets of the orderly-men, empied of their last gun-fire.