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Enfilade fire

noun
1.
Gunfire directed along the length rather than the breadth of a formation.  Synonym: enfilade.





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"Enfilade fire" Quotes from Famous Books



... thinking with their boots when they dug it there," said Riley. "A trench on that side is open to enfilade fire. It should have been dug out from the left corner of that curve ...
— Action Front • Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)
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... fortunes of the three Companies, who began their advance at 4.30 a.m. B Company, on the right, had only gone 200 yards before enfilade fire was directed at them through the darkness from the slag-heaps on the right. A platoon was detached to deal with it, and its garrison, fearing encirclement, gave themselves up to the 8th Worcesters, who were ...
— The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.) • Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser Cruttwell
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Words linked to "Enfilade fire" :   enfilade, gunshot, gunfire


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