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Definition of Defilade
1. Noun. The arrangement of defensive fortifications to protect against enemy fire.
Definition of Defilade
1. v. t. To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.
Definition of Defilade
1. Verb. (transitive) To fortify something as a protection from enfilading fire. ¹
2. Noun. A fortification having such protection. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Defilade
1. to shield from enemy fire [v -LADED, -LADING, -LADES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defilade
Literary usage of Defilade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Field Fortifications: For the Use of the Cadets of the by Junius Brutus Wheeler (1898)
"defilade by traverses.—The problem of reverse defilade is almost always solved by
... That of front defilade, by either raising the parapet or lowering the ..."
2. Technique of Modern Tactics: A Study of Troop Leading Methods in the by Paul Stanley Bond, Michael Joseph McDonough (1916)
"If the target can be just seen through the sights (over the mask) the position
has sight defilade, if by a mounted or dismounted man, mounted or dismounted ..."
3. A Text-book of Military Engineering: For the Use of the Cadets of the United by Junius Brutus Wheeler, United States Military Academy (1884)
"The scale UV is the scale of slope of the plane of reverse defilade for the ...
If a single traverse is used to defilade both terre-pleins from reverse fire ..."
4. Elements of Modern Field Artillery: U.S. Service by Harry Gore Bishop (1917)
"The hostile position against which we defilade may be the target to be attacked;
preferably, however, defilade is taken against the highest position which ..."
5. A French-English Military Technical Dictionary by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1899)
"to defile, defilade; to protect from enfilade; (hence, in gen. ... to defilade
against trajectories of a slope of 1 : n; In review; (mi'i. slang) to die; ..."
6. The Tactical Employment of Quick-firing Field Artillery by Gabriel Rouquerol (1903)
"DEGREE OF defilade.—We know that a battery, so as not to disclose its position
by the flash of discharge, must be placed about 13 feet below the covering ..."
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