Crossword-Solution: DEFILADE 8 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Defilade.= If we will consider a bullet just grazing the top of an impenetrable obstacle (like "A," Fig.

The hostile fire being directed against a point well down the slope, the high ground in rear will interpose as a defilade and intercept the upper portion of the cone of fire which might otherwise take effect on the supports and reserves behind the crest.

This problem of defilade became quite out of date after the development of time shrapnel, but was nevertheless taught with great rigour till within the last twenty years.

When the parallels and approaches have to be constructed upon ground sloping downward towards the work, in soil containing large stones, or in which the rock is close to the surface, in marshy ground or that containing much water or liable to be flooded, the difficulty of their construction and defilade are evident.

What does defilade mean? The art of disposing guns, troops, or works in such a manner, that they shall be protected from a plunging-fire from adjoining heights.