Crossword clues for defilade
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Defilade \De`fi*lade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Defiladed; p. pr. & vb. n. Defilading.] [Cf. F. d['e]filer to defile, and d['e]filade act of defiling. See 1st Defile.] (Mil.) To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1828, from defile (n.) + -ade.
Wiktionary
n. A fortification having such protection. vb. (context transitive English) To fortify something as a protection from enfilading fire.
WordNet
n. the arrangement of defensive fortifications to protect against enemy fire
Usage examples of "defilade".
He could hear everything that his gunner and Bradley Commander could hear, but since the vehicle was in its turret defilade position, in the bottom of a deep hole, he couldn't see a thing.
But as fast as they charged, the guns of the Missouri pounded the narrow defilade where the town had once stood.
With all their technological advances, with all their missiles and long range artillery, it seemed so strange that they would still care so much about river boundaries and defilade slopes.
Many defilade positions were found on his side of the valley, overlooking the bridge.
They fire from defiladed positions, raking my entire port flank along a deadly diagonal line.
Even in a small, deep, protective hole, even in a defiladed tank, that artillery fire would be terrifying, enough to distract the guided-weapons crews, enough to rattle communications men, perhaps enough to impede the officers there.
The Russians had defiladed tanks on their flanks, and in front of them was a village bristling with antitank missiles: the German colonel had set a moving ambush, and the pursuing Russians had fallen into it.
He watched after the rear view mirror, with the hope to see a truck or some other vehicle, but almost there was no transit in the defiladed road with snow.
A celebration, drunkards died in the way of return of, handling to one hundred fifty kilometers per hour by a defiladed road with snow.
Stay defiladed from the machine-guns but if anything comes out of that pass I want to know about it.
A quick head count told him he was already outnumbered, and his force was under the enemy s guns rather than defilading the Star Gate.