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fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water. Ricochet firing (Mil.), the firing of guns or howitzers, usually with small charges, at an elevation of only a few degrees, so as to cause the balls or shells to bound or skip along the ground.

ing mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse. Farrow.