2. Verb. (third-person singular of enfilade) ¹
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Definition of Enfilades
1. enfilade [v] - See also: enfilade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enfilades
Literary usage of Enfilades
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Two Thousand Questions and Answers about the War: A Catechism of the Methods by The Review of reviews (1918)
"A gun enfilades a trench when it is placed in such a position that it can fire
straight along it, and enfilades troops when its fire takes them on the flank ..."
2. Two Thousand Questions and Answers about the War: A Catechism of the Methods by Julius Washington Muller (1918)
"A gun enfilades a trench when it is placed in such a position that it can fire
straight along it, and enfilades troops when its fire takes them on the flank ..."
3. The New Reformation and Its Relation to Moral and Social Problems by Ramsden Balmforth (1893)
"There are in all classes, says Mr. Arnold, natures, "sown more abundantly than
one might think, that set up a fire which enfilades, so to speak, ..."
4. China and the Open Door by Charles Coates (1899)
"It is surrounded with deep wet ditches, and it completely, owing to a bend,
enfilades the entrance, delivering a cross-fire in conjunction with the outer ..."
5. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"... papers in the bow-window of the Club, which enfilades Pall Mall—a large
plethoric man, with a bunch of seals in a large bow-windowed light waistcoat. ..."
6. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"... papers in the bow-window of the Club, which enfilades Pall Mall—a large
plethoric man, with a bunch of seals in a large bow-windowed light waistcoat. ..."
7. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1894)
"Red Bank being a post of Consequence, as it over looks and enfilades the old Fort
and vessels, it will be proper ..."
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