enfilade

英 [,enf?'le?d] 美[,?nf?'led]

第三人稱單數(shù):?enfilades;過(guò)去式:?enfiladed;過(guò)去分詞:?enfiladed;現(xiàn)在分詞:?enfilading;

enfilade (n.): 1706, a string of things in a straight line, from French enfilade, from Old French enfiler (13c.) "to thread (a needle) on a string; pierce from end to end," from en- "put on" (see en- (1)) + fil "thread" (see file (v.1)). Used of rows of apartments and lines of trees before military sense came to predominate: "a firing with a straight passage down ranks of men, channels in fortifications, etc." (1796). As a verb from 1706 in the military sense, "rake with shot through the full length." Related: Enfiladed; enfilading. The Old French verb was borrowed in Middle English as enfile "to put (something) on a thread or string."