Enfiladed [verb]

When daylight came we got them enfiladed by machine guns and every single mother's son of them was either killed or captured.

Many of them lay down under the shelter of a wall, which was, however, enfiladed by the enemy.

They were on Meade's left flank and enfiladed his lines, throwing shells directly up the road.

Troops deployed and under fire can not change front, and thus they suffer greatly when enfiladed.

It enfiladed the assailants, sweeping them at a distance of thirty feet; slugs and grapeshot hissed, spreading fan rays of death!

Both of these they enfiladed; also they peppered the roads whenever troops were visible moving in or out.

Unhappily, their unit, the Rifle Brigade, was enfiladed and forced to fall back on its old lines.

As we passed over the main trench, we were enfiladed by cannon placed in armored turrets at the end of each section of trench.

Because a line is enfiladed it does not follow that it cannot be held.

Rebel batteries on the hills in front of the town enfiladed the ravine, sweeping it from the town to the river.