WordNet
n. gunfire directed along the length rather than the breadth of a formation [syn: enfilade]
Usage examples of "enfilade fire".
Immediately, grunting with exertion at the levering spikes, they began swiveling the field guns to bring enfilade fire on the tercios crossing in front of them.
An exterior little fortress from which enfilade fire could be brought to bear on anyone attempting to assault the fortress itself.
He craned his neck and leaned from side to side, trying to spot the guns that were raking his battalion with enfilade fire.
Into it fired the splatguns in the buildings on either side of the barricade, taking the whole length of the street back to the cleared circuit inside the walls in a murderous X of enfilade fire.
He could envision already the mass of Malwa soldiers piled up against that wall, and the pitiless enfilade fire of the mitrailleuse and canister-loaded field guns which would turn a muddy ditch bright with color.
The double row of firing ports and the zigzag design of it gave the defenders the ability to bring enfilade fire on anyone advancing across the open field that stretched in front.
Katie and I will form the base of the el, on the left side of the road where I can deliver enfilade fire and stop the front vehicle dead.
If he could get the cannon setup there at the north end of the Fiernan line, they'd have enfilade fire right down the whole enemy force.
They both shot rapidly down the crumbling Yankee line-repeaters were made for enfilade fire.
Ravelins and bastions at frequent intervals, giving murderous enfilade fire all along the circuit, with a strong central citadel near the water.
The next Iranian got off one brief, wild burst from his AK before Garcia's enfilade fire sent him tumbling in a bloody heap down the steel ladder.