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Updated: June 17, 2025
Also used as a begging word by the French children. Stand to Order for all men to stand ready in the trench in event of a surprise attack, usually at sundown and sunrise. Stand down Countermanding "stand to." Stokes A bomb weighing about eleven pounds usually thrown from a mortar, but sometimes used by hand. Strafing One of the few words Tommy has borrowed from Fritz. To punish.
A crowded mess began the evening. Some naval men from a monitor lying alongside were present, very keen on doing some strafing, as everyone was, where Arabs were concerned. They related their own manner of dealing with such things higher up the river "Turned a machine-gun on their cattle and annihilated the lot. That got the wind up them all right!"
"Therefore, Captain Ribaut, suppose you send him with the patrol." "Thank you, sir," came Dick's quick assent. "Nothing could please me more. It will make to-night a time surely worth while to me." Before the meal had been finished the German artillerymen began the late afternoon "strafing," as a bombardment is called.
We're three to his one, and we have all his hardware and cutlery. But also we can do better with him than without him just as he can do better with us than without us. It's an even break for a while. But once he gets that information he's looking for, then look out. You and Olaf and I are the wolves and the flies and the midges again and the strafing will be about due.
"Good!" ejaculated the company commander, replacing his binoculars. "We've had the orchestral selection; the curtain rises on the First Act." A loud whirring noise audible above the distant cannonade announced that the seaplane was passing overhead to participate in the strafing of Fritz.
The ship let down, while the six combat-cars which had accompanied her buzzed the Palace roof, strafing it to keep it clear, and the Kragans aboard fired with their rifles. She came to rest on seven-eights weight reduction, and even before the gangplanks were run out, the Kragans were dropping to the flat roof, running to stairhead penthouses and tossing grenades into them.
Having been so successful at the strafing at Messines, our Colonel was anxious that we continue the game here and I was delegated to locate a good position and "go to it."
Going up by my car as far as the top of Camoy Valley, I left it there near a dressing station. "Strafing!" I was out for "strafing," and by all appearances I was likely to get it hot and strong before long. I had only just stopped when a shell came hurtling overhead, falling about one hundred and fifty yards behind the dressing station.
We all of us soon forgot about the previous night's efforts of Fritz in a gorgeous repast of bacon, fried bread, and tea. Bosche was now fairly quiet; he was "strafing" the ridge in front with an occasional H.E.; some of our batteries on my right were still at it.
"Down this way, then turn to your left at the corner; the battery is about two hundred yards along on the hill-side." "But, man alive," I said, "they're strafing it like blazes. Look!" They were, too, and 8-inch shells were dropping wholesale. "No, I think I will take the risk and run over the open. Are there any dug-outs at the battery?"
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