Word info

enfilading

Meaning

of Enfilade

Source: Webster's dictionary

Examples

Any attack on his right centre would mean the attackers would have to march between enfilading fire from Hougoumont and La Haye Sainte. Source: Internet

Ch. XLIII. 266. On the sides of the crescent, foot-archers were placed, and this enabled them to destroy the Gothic cavalry through enfilading fire. Source: Internet

As the Union men advanced, Brig. Gen. Romeyn B. Ayres 's brigade had to take cover in a gully to avoid the enfilading fire. Source: Internet

Curtain walls were studded with towers to allow enfilading fire along the wall. Source: Internet

The front face of each box was lightly held by battle outposts and the rest of the box was unoccupied but sowed with mines and explosive traps and covered by enfilading fire. Source: Internet

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