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Definition of Defilades
1. defilade [v] - See also: defilade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defilades
Literary usage of Defilades
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Airplane Photography by Herbert Eugene Ives (1920)
"Commanding positions are shown, the boundaries of areas exposed to machine-gun
fire, and the defilades where the attackers may pause to reform. ..."
2. The elements of modern tactics practically applied to English formations by Wilkinson Jocelyn Shaw (1880)
"... and has ultimately to fall back to the south-west of the common, where the
ground near the foot of tho hills defilades it from artillery fire. ..."
3. A History Of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close Of the Generation by George Grote (1869)
"... *or -defilades, w^° na^ been sent to Macedonia orate"' De- as envoy to solicit
the removal of the Macedonian ..."
4. A Text-book of Military Engineering: For the Use of the Cadets of the United by Junius Brutus Wheeler, United States Military Academy (1884)
"This inclination of the crest defilades the redoubt from any fire coming from
tho ravelin salient. The effect of placing the magistral of the redoubt upon ..."
5. A Treatise on Naval Gunnery by Howard Douglas (1855)
"... the ordinary water-line as to invite the use of two round shot, whilst the
declination of her deck covers or defilades her people from grape or case. ..."
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