enfilade

• But 'enfilade' is in my top 5 most awesomest things ever, and 'one armed scissor' rocks my world. —  Drowned In Sound // Feed
• Points, the capture of which would facilitate enfilade or reverse fire, and would thus render the rest of the position untenable IV. —  Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918
• 1914 AT THE BACK OF THE FRONT Here where the world is quiet except for the noise of the rain trickling into one's valise through the nooks and crannies of one's rustic apartment--here where there is no peril from above and no peril from in front, neither peril of enfilade, here too--it is a Base I am doing this sentence about--we have our problems To begin with there is the glorious uncertainty of things. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 19, 1916
• Exmouth's general design was to concentrate his heavy ships at the southern end of the mole, whence the curve in the line of batteries would enable them to enfilade or take in reverse the works at the northern extremity. —  Types of Naval Officers Drawn from the History of the British Navy
• On either hand our cannon enfilade, Crushing great gaps along the stalwart lines; In front our deadly rifles volley still, Mowing the toppling swaths of daring men. —  The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems

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