enfilading

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.

Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 1877

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.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

They moved out, and the ones that were in position near Cabu were in a beautiful enfilading position and practically wiped out that battalion.

Into the Rising Sun Patrick K. O’Donnell 2002

For the Texan who is president, and is under enfilading fire on all sides, from adversaries and events, this may seem like Comanche Spring.

Comanche Spring, 2004 2008

As to Machiavelli, the neocons, and ID, I think there is no enfilading position to be found there.

A critique of Himmelfarb's scientific views - The Panda's Thumb 2005

Thames; an enfilading view down the Lower Hope Reach.

Falk, by Joseph Conrad 2004

In point of grazing, plunging, oblique, or enfilading, or point-blank firing, the English, French, and Prussians have nothing to learn; but their cannon, howitzers, and mortars are mere pocket-pistols compared with the formidable engines of the American artillery.

From the Earth to the Moon 2003

Hill devised a plan to take a battery enfilading their advance.

LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

Three things must be done at once: Additional guns must be placed on the ridge to silence the Federal guns; second, ample infantry supports must be at hand; third, the Confederate left must be extended to drive off the infantry and guns enfilading Poague.21

LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

Hill devised a plan to take a battery enfilading their advance.

LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001