Definitions for enfilade

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enfilade en·fi·lade

Spelling: [en-fuh-leyd, -lahd, en-fuh-leyd, - Enfilade is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 286 anagrams from letters in enfilade (adeefiln).

Definitions for enfilade

noun

1. Military. a position of works, troops, etc., making them subject to a sweeping fire from along the length of a line of troops, a trench, a battery, etc. the fire thus directed.
2. Architecture. an axial arrangement of doorways connecting a suite of rooms with a vista down the whole length of the suite. an axial arrangement of mirrors on opposite sides of a room so as to give an effect of an infinitely long vista.

verb (used with object)

1. Military. to attack with an enfilade.

Origin of enfilade

1695-1705; French, equivalent to enfil(er) to thread, string (en- en-¹ + -filer, derivative of fil Latin fīlum thread) + -ade -ade

Examples for enfilade

If successful, it was to enfilade the Wylie kopjes from that position.

Half front your line that way so as not to let them enfilade you.

Uncut wire and an enfilade from a redoubt which should have been blown up.

To be sure they are, and if you sit still you will be able to enfilade them as they retreat.

These precautions enabled the defenders to enfilade the approaching enemy.

For wherever wire is, machine guns are placed to enfilade it.

It assists in protecting from enfilade, and affords a plunging fire.

You will note that they enfilade our lines as we reach the bottom land.

A machine gun of the Canterbury Regiment was posted to enfilade them.

From Caribou Ridge the Turks could enfilade parts of our firing-line.