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.
