defiled

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At Sedd-el-Bahr, the first houses are empty, being open to the fire of the Fleet, but the best part of the other houses are defiladed by the ground and a month ago they were held.

From Gallipoli Diary, Volume I by Hamilton, Ian, Sir

It was impossible to keep defiladed from Turkish observation, but we did not supply them with much in the way of a target.

From War in the Garden of Eden by Roosevelt, Kermit

Dead ground; defiladed from inland batteries; deep water right close to the shore!

From Gallipoli Diary, Volume I by Hamilton, Ian, Sir

The fire seemed to drop from half the points of the compass towards that one small strip of sand, so marvellously well defiladed by nature that nine-tenths of the shot fell harmlessly into the sea.

From Gallipoli Diary, Volume I by Hamilton, Ian, Sir