Enfilade

en-fi-lād′, n. a number of rooms with the doors opening into a common pa age: a fire that rakes a line of troops, ., from end to end; a situation or a body open from end to end.— v.t. to rake with shot through the whole length of a line. [Fr.,— enfiler — en (=L. in ), and fil , a thread. See File , a line or wire.]