enfilade
NOUN
1A volley of gunfire directed along a line from end to
end.
‘they were mown down by an enfilade of artillery’
2A suite of rooms with doorways in line with each
other.
Example sentences
VERB
Direct a volley of gunfire along the length of (a
target)
‘a sweeping crossfire enfiladed our riflemen’
Origin
Early 18th century (denoting the position of a
military post commanding the length of a line): from French, from enfiler
‘thread on a string, pierce from end to end’, from en- ‘in, on’ + fil ‘thread’.
Pronunciation
enfilade/ˌɛnfɪˈleɪd/
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