† enˈfile, v. Obs.
Also 7 infile.
[a. Fr. enfile-r: see enfilade.]
1. trans. To put on a string or thread. Also, to enfile up: to hang up on a string, etc.
| 1393 Gower Conf. III. 237 They taughten him [Sardanapallus] to lace a braide..and to enfile A perle. 1601 Holland Pliny II. 124 To cut the root..into thin roundles, and to keep them enfiled vp. Ibid. II. 133 The swine mushromes..are hanged vp to dry infiled vpon a rush running through them. 1675 Hobbes Odyssey (1677) 116 When they had slain my men, they them enfil'd..like fishes hung in ranks. |
2. Her. In pa. pple. (See quot.)
| 1830 Robson Brit. Herald. Gloss. s.v., When the head of a man or beast, or any other charge, is placed on the blade of a sword, the sword is said to be enfiled with whatever is borne upon it. |