The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enfilade \En`fi*lade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enfiladed; p. pr.
& vb. n. Enfilading.] (Mil.)
To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the
length of, as a work, or a line of troops.
--Campbell.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of enfilade English)
Usage examples of "enfilading".
She did not overlook the latest theories about towers for enfilading fire and barbicans to protect her elevated gates.
The enfilading batteries would fire at an angle through the growing breaches to keep the enemy from making repairs, and the howitzer, which fired high in the air so that its shells dropped steeply down, could bombard the repair parties behind the fortress ramparts.
The closest guns were in the two enfilading batteries, and the gunners were using their twelve pounders to systematically bring down the parapets of the ramparts above Gawilghur's gate.
Two seconds later the sound of the great gun bellowed all around Sharpe and Garrard, while the massive round shot struck the stalled limber just behind the enfilading battery.
The enfilading twelve-pounders fired shells into the breaches, while the howitzer lobbed more shells over the walls.
We will cover with enfilading fire till his attention is drawn elsewhere.
One-Eye, what say we build a watchtower on top of one of the enfilading towers?
I had gone to the top of an enfilading tower to stare at the nighted hills and brood.
Not only could Bravo have taken the force with enfilading fire, but the plan called for the battalion to wait for Bravo so that the shock of their first strike would turn the Posleen towards the Monument and into the killing field he intended to make of the monument area.
To be sure, there was water and grass and space to sprawl out, but it gave away the high ground to an attacker and exposed two flanks of the army to an enfilading strike.