enfilading

Verb

enfilade (third-person singular simple present enfilades, present participle enfilading, simple past and past participle enfiladed)

1. (transitive) To rake (something) with gunfire.
   • A great quantity of artillery was placed upon the eminence, so as to batter and enfilade the left of their intrenchments.1765, John Wright, chapter 7, in The Compleat History of the Late War, volume 1, London: David Steel, page 202
2. (figuratively, transitive) To be directed toward (something) like enfilading gunfire.
   • Together they saw the market thicken, and in course of time thin away with the slow decline of the sun towards the upper end of town, its rays taking the street endways and enfilading the long thoroughfare from top to bottom.1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 24, in The Mayor of Casterbridge
3. (transitive) To arrange (rooms or other structures) in a row.
   • […] the house had been boldly planned with a ball-room, so that, instead of squeezing through a narrow passage to get to it (as at the Chiverses’) one marched solemnly down a vista of enfiladed drawing-rooms (the sea-green, the crimson and the bouton d’or), seeing from afar the many-candled lustres...1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, Book 1, Chapter 3

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