interleadingadj.
/ɪntəˈliːdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌɪn(t)ərˈlidɪŋ/, South African English /ɪntəˈliːdɪŋ/ Chiefly South African.
That interconnects; spec. (of a door) that connects two rooms; (of a room, corridor, etc.) that leads into another.
ΚΠ
1933 Amazing Stories Dec. 89/2 The banked control-panel that held within it the interleading conduits of electric force that created fan-beams of crackling force-shields.
1953 D. Lessing Five 18 The two small rooms were so made that the interleading door was in the centre of the wall.
1961 Afr. South in Exile Jan. 26 Finally we are taken to three large cells, two of them interleading. There are 20 of us.
1979 P. Miller Myths & Legends Southern Afr. 91 Two small rooms with an interleading doorway.
2013 A. J. Venter Portugal's Guerrilla Wars Afr. iii. 89 Casualties could be brought back from the most forward positions through sets of interleading tunnels.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
adj.1933