How to translate "ochered'" (not the kind for toilet paper)?

[Steve Marder]

> Dear SEELANGers,
> 
> Just a short while ago I was among the list users who responded to
> Robert Chandler's dilemma about "rogatye avtomaty." Ironically, I now
> have a question of my own, entirely unrelated to Grossman's story.
> 
> How would you translate into English the phrase "polosnul avtomatnoi
> ochered'iu"? 
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> 
> Inna Caron, OSU

Good question. For starters, how about: "raked with a burst of submachine
gun fire"?

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