rifle pit

a pit or short trench affording shelter to riflemen in firing at an enemy.

Origin of rifle pit

First recorded in 1850–55

Knowing this, they tore on till the rifle-pit was only a hundred yards away.

A Dash from Diamond City |George Manville Fenn
That night the regiment occupied a rifle-pit about half a mile from the river.

The Seventh Regiment |George L. Wood
All Virginia, from the Rapidan to Richmond, was a rifle-pit and an earthwork.

Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century |Various
Not until he found himself back in the rifle-pit, however, did he even know that he was wounded.

Brave Deeds of Union Soldiers |Samuel Scoville

I made a comfortable bed, by leaning two rails against the rifle-pit.

In The Ranks |R. E. McBride