Definition of Indian file

1. Noun. A line of persons or things ranged one behind the other.

Exact synonyms: File, Single File
Specialized synonyms: Snake Dance, Column
Generic synonyms: Line
Derivative terms: File

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indian File

Indian chief
Indian chieftain
Indian chocolate
Indian cholera
Indian club
Indian cobra
Indian coral tree
Indian corn
Indian cress
Indian crocus
Indian currant
Indian elephant
Indian elephants
Indian fig
Indian figs
Indian file
Indian flap
Indian ginger
Indian giver
Indian givers
Indian giving
Indian grackle
Indian gum
Indian hemp
Indian ink
Indian lettuce
Indian lotus
Indian madder
Indian mallow
Indian meal

Literary usage of Indian file

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"indian file. Single file. 1811 In the formation of my troops, ... 1791 [They] ranged themselves in regular indian file, the veteran in the van, ..."

2. The Playground Book by Harry Sperling (1916)
"the teams run forward as units, the players keeping their places behind each other in indian file, turn around the club, race back to their original ..."

3. The Journals of Washington Irving (hitherto Unpublished) by Washington Irving (1919)
"Come upon elk trail — deep prints like a cow — elk beds where they laid the night before last — go quietly, indian file — come to where ..."

4. Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa: With by Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming (1850)
"Turn my Waggons towards the Colony — A Troop of Elephants in indian file — Splendid Sport amongst them — Two of them break their Tusks in falling— The Rainy ..."

5. Canadian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil by John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Argyll (1892)
"It was a step which promoted unity, SNOW-SHOE CLUB IN indian file. although it seemed to some minds to define separation. When negotiations for trade with ..."

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