Enfilades [noun]
Definition of Enfilades:
weapon fire
Synonyms of Enfilades:
Opposite/Antonyms of Enfilades:
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Sentence/Example of Enfilades:
As that big oblong crowd of Turks showed their left flank to Baikie's nine batteries they were swept in enfilade by shrapnel.
If successful, it was to enfilade the Wylie kopjes from that position.
In a gleam of sunshine, the variety of tints and lights thrown upon this enfilade, are uncommonly rich.
Meanwhile three Turkish brigs came to the rescue, and got into position so as to enfilade the beach.
They could thus, by firing eastwards from this redoubt, rake No Mans Land in direct enfilade.
By firing westwards, they could place an enfilade barrage of low trajectory bullets which swept the rides through the wood.
Their defenders were now treated to the enfilade fire of a number of Hanoverian batteries that galloped down to Little Waltham.
We saw a whole enfilade of dark caves, through regular square openings, six feet wide.
And now another brigade charged, and was driven back by an enfilade fire.
The enemy cannot break it, but his fire fast thins its ranks, and his flanking movement and deadly enfilade still continue.