Definitions for enfilades

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enfilades en·fi·lade

Spelling: [en-fuh-leyd, -lahd, en-fuh-leyd, - Enfilades is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 553 anagrams from letters in enfilades (adeefilns).

Definitions for enfilades

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 enfilades

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

Examples for enfilades

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

These precautions enabled the defenders to enfilade the approaching enemy.

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

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