enfilade

1. (transitive) To rake (something) with gunfire.Examples: "A great quantity of artillery was placed upon the eminence, so as to batter and enfilade the left of their intrenchments."; "As they scrambled up a narrow path they every where found holes dug to cover the defenders of the mountain, and sticks crossed for resting their guns, with which they enfiladed every angle, that from the steepness it was necessary to make in ascending."; "It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle."transitive

2. (figuratively, transitive) To be directed toward (something) like enfilading gunfire.Examples: "Together they saw the market thicken, and in course of time thin away with the slow decline of the sun towards the upper end of town, its rays taking the street endways and enfilading the long thoroughfare from top to bottom."; "From her rocking chair in the parlour, Mrs. Zell’s scrutiny enfiladed the entire block."figurativelytransitive

3. (architecture, transitive) To arrange (rooms or other structures) in a row.Examples: "[…] the house had been boldly planned with a ball-room, so that, instead of squeezing through a narrow passage to get to it (as at the Chiverses’) one marched solemnly down a vista of enfiladed drawing-rooms (the sea-green, the crimson and the bouton d’or), seeing from afar the many-candled lustres reflected in the polished parquetry […]"transitive