The name of a village in Middlesex, near which the Government has a manufactory of small arms. Used attrib. with various military terms, as in Enfield rifle, etc.
1858. Greener, Gunnery, 377. The length of the Enfield bullet is 7/8 inch.
1858. Beveridge, Hist. India, III. IX. iv. 633. One hundred Enfield riflemen of the 6th. Ibid. Covered at discretion by Enfield skirmishers. Ibid., 634. The power of the Enfield rifle in British hands.
