NOUN
- a squad formed to fire volleys at a military funeral or to carry out a military execution
How To Use firing party In A Sentence
- His comrades cried as they formed the firing party and some shot wide. Times, Sunday Times
- It would be conducted around a bier of wreaths and a serviceman's hat, with a firing party with heads bowed and a chaplain to read the words from the military burial service.
- When the religious ceremony was over a firing party of seven fired three volleys of shots into the air.