Crossword-Solution: ENFILADE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Enfilade | n. | A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line. |
| Enfilade | n. | A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.; a raking fire. |
| Enfilade | v. t. | To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ENFILADE | anagram | FEDALINE |
We have 12 clues for the answer “ENFILADE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A placement of troops | 1 answer |
| Facing mirrors, in architecture | 1 answer |
| Type of gunfire. | 1 answer |
| gunfire directed along the length rather than the breadth of a formation | 1 answer |
| rake or be in a position to rake with gunfire in a lengthwise direction | 1 answer |
| Rake with gunfire. | 2 answers |
| Broadside Hit | 10 answers |
| gunfire | 19 answers |
| broadside | 20 answers |
| Rake | 39 answers |
| Barrage | 45 answers |
| Fire | 120 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Sentences with ENFILADE (5)
Anything resembling a bonnet in shape or use; as, (a) (Fort.) A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.
The Prussian line steps on, extreme left perhaps in too animated a manner; their cannon batteries enfilade the thick mass of Russians at a frightful rate ("forty-two men of a certain regiment blown away by a single ball," in one instance [Tielcke.]), drive the interior baggage-horses to despair: a very agitated Quadrilateral, under its grim canopy of cannon smoke, and of straw smoke, heaped on it from the Zorndorf side here.
Friedrich's two batteries, however, as they took the Russians in the flank or by enfilade, did good execution.
Chapter XI: The Challenge It all occurred just before midnight, in one of the smaller rooms, which lead in enfilade from the principal ballroom.
The sun was hardly up before the howitzers were throwing lyddite at 4000 yards, the three field batteries (18th, 62nd, 75th) were working with shrapnel at a mile, and the troop of Horse Artillery was up at the right front trying to enfilade the trenches.
Quotes with ENFILADE (1)
A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1945–1997).