Usually means: Gunfire directed along enemy line.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. enfilade: Merriam-Webster
  2. enfilade: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. enfilade: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. enfilade: Collins English Dictionary
  5. enfilade: Vocabulary.com
  6. enfilade: Wordnik
  7. enfilade: Wiktionary
  8. enfilade: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. enfilade: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. enfilade: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Enfilade, enfilade: Dictionary.com
  12. enfilade: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Enfilade (Xanadu), Enfilade (architecture), Enfilade: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Enfilade: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. enfilade: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. enfilade: Rhymezone
  17. Enfilade: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. enfilade: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. enfilade: FreeDictionary.org
  20. enfilade: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. enfilade: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. enfilade: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. enfilade: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. enfilade: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. enfilade: A Word A Day

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Enfilade: Dictionary of Military Architecture
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See enfiladed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (enfilade)

noun:  A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line.
noun:  Gunfire directed along the length of a target.
noun:  (architecture) A series of doors that provide a vista when open.
verb:  (transitive) To rake (something) with gunfire.
verb:  (figuratively, transitive) To be directed toward (something) like enfilading gunfire.
verb:  (architecture, transitive) To arrange (rooms or other structures) in a row.

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