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defilade
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defilade
v.
protect troops, arrange natural of artificial shielding against frontal attack
n.
protection provided by natural or artificial obstacles or fortifications against enemy fire
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Enfilade and defilade
Enfilade and defilade are concepts in military tactics used to describe a military formation's exposure to enemy fire. A formation or position is "in enfilade" if weapons fire can be directed along its longest axis. A unit or position is "in defilade" if it uses natural or artificial obstacles to shield or conceal itself from enfilade. The strategies invented by the English use the French ("to put on a string or sling") and ("to slip away or off") which the English nobility used at that time.
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defilade
Noun
1. the arrangement of defensive fortifications to protect against enemy fire
(hypernym) fortification, munition
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défilade
nf.
defilade, protection provided by natural or artificial obstacles or fortifications against enemy fire; progress, development
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Defilade
(v. t.)
To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.
To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.
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