"fire step" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1917, Arthur Guy Empey, Over The Top",
          "text": "We stood on the fire step with our heads over the top, peering out into No Man's Land.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 101",
          "text": "‘One o' the men on the firestep was 'urt too, but they said it was only a nice blighty one.’",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Pat Barker, Regeneration (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 140",
          "text": "They spread the lime together, sprinkling it thickly along the firestep, throwing shovelfuls at a bad patch of wall.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "A step or platform dug into the front side of a military trench - allowing soldiers to stand on it in order to fire over the parapet."
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        [
          "platform",
          "platform"
        ],
        [
          "dug",
          "dug"
        ],
        [
          "trench",
          "trench"
        ],
        [
          "parapet",
          "parapet"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military, chiefly historical) A step or platform dug into the front side of a military trench - allowing soldiers to stand on it in order to fire over the parapet."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "firestep"
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      ],
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        "politics",
        "war"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "step in side of trench",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "banquette de tir"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fire step"
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        "en:Military"
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        {
          "ref": "1917, Arthur Guy Empey, Over The Top",
          "text": "We stood on the fire step with our heads over the top, peering out into No Man's Land.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 101",
          "text": "‘One o' the men on the firestep was 'urt too, but they said it was only a nice blighty one.’",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Pat Barker, Regeneration (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 140",
          "text": "They spread the lime together, sprinkling it thickly along the firestep, throwing shovelfuls at a bad patch of wall.",
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        "A step or platform dug into the front side of a military trench - allowing soldiers to stand on it in order to fire over the parapet."
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        [
          "platform",
          "platform"
        ],
        [
          "dug",
          "dug"
        ],
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          "trench",
          "trench"
        ],
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          "parapet",
          "parapet"
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        "(military, chiefly historical) A step or platform dug into the front side of a military trench - allowing soldiers to stand on it in order to fire over the parapet."
      ],
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        "historical"
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      "topics": [
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    {
      "word": "firestep"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "step in side of trench",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "banquette de tir"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fire step"
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