enfilade fire

1. 1.

   gunfire directed along the length rather than the breadth of a formation

   Synonymsenfilade

   Broadergunfire

Questions about enfilade fire

What does enfilade fire mean?

enfilade fire means "gunfire directed along the length rather than the breadth of a formation".

What is another word for enfilade fire?

Close synonyms include enfilade. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is enfilade fire a common word?

enfilade fire is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.