gunfire

noun4

1. •
   bullets being shot from guns, heard as a series of loud bangs

   • Let's hide in the trees to avoid the gunfire.
   • Sergeant, direct your gunfire toward that copse of trees.
2. •
   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. •
   (slang) 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. — 1937
4. •
   The time of firing of the morning gun or the evening gun.