Indian file
nounEtymology
Attested since the 18th century, as Native Americans traversed woods in this way.
Definitions
Single file.
- In about an hour they returned very much intoxicated, singing their dead war songs, and every warrior naked, painted black from head to foot: as they approached the house in Indian file, each one repeated the following words […]
- He stopped abruptly, as if sorry he had said so much, and a moment later the party were walking in Indian file through the turnstile, Sir John Burney leading the way.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for Indian file. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA