Definition of "enfilading" [enfilading]

• Present participle of enfilade. (verb)

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• "The risks of grave injury were therefore greatly increased by exposure to this, which by soldiers is called enfilading, but at sea a raking fire; and to avoid such mischance was one of the principal concerns of a captain in a naval duel."
• "Seeing McCook so fiercely attacked, in order to aid him I advanced Hescock's battery, supported by six regiments, to a very good position in front of a belt of timber on my extreme left, where an enfilading fire could be opened on that portion of the enemy attacking the right of the First Corps, and also on his batteries across Chaplin River."
• "They moved out, and the ones that were in position near Cabu were in a beautiful enfilading position and practically wiped out that battalion."